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This book will appeal to readers interested in thoughtful essays on literature, faith, and human experience, as well as fans of Marilynne Robinson's fiction and reflective, eloquent writing.
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See moreFrom the author of the magnificent, award-winning novels GILEAD, HOME and LILA comes this wonderful, heart-warming collection of essays about reading.
* From the author of the magnificent, award-winning novels GILEAD and HOME comes this, a collection of wonderful, heart-warming essays about reading
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Of Marilynne Robinson, Michael Arditti said that there is 'no contemporary novelist whose work I would rather read'. However, she is not only a writer of sharp, subtly moving prose, but also a rigorous thinker and incisive essayist.
In this luminous new collection, she returns to the themes which have preoccupied her bestselling novels: the place literature has in life, the role of faith in modern living, the contradictions inherent in human nature. Clear-eyed and forceful as ever, Robinson demonstrates once again why she is regarded as one of our best-loved writers.
When I Was A Child I Read Books is a testament to Robinson's profound intellectual engagement and her abilities to mesh thought with beautifully crafted prose.
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781844087723
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 06 June 2013
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Virago Press Ltd
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 18.0mm
Width: 126.0mm
Height: 196.0mm
Weight: 180g
Pages: 224
About the Author
Marilynne Robinson was born in 1947. Her first novel, Housekeeping (1981) received the PEN/Hemingway award for best first novel as well as being nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Gilead also won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
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