A modern classic, Housekeeping is the story of Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, who grow up haphazardly, first under the care of their competent grandmother, then of two comically bumbling great-aunts, and finally of Sylvie, the eccentric and remote sister of their dead mother. The family house is in the small town of Fingerbone on a glacial ...
Marilynne Robinson's long-awaited second novel is named after the town in which it is set: Gilead, Iowa. The time is the 1950s, and John Ames, the town's beloved pastor, is dying of heart disease. Widowed early but recently remarried, John has a very young son. The novel is a final act of love: a letter to the boy, in which he looks back on his ...
These essays by Marilynne Robinson, who is best known for her 1980 novel HOUSEKEEPING, are about our society's obsession with consumerism and economics, at the expense of any kind of profound thinking or respect for knowledge. Her topics include the McGuffey readers, creationism, John Calvin, and environmentalism.
These essays by Marilynne Robinson, who is best known for her 1980 novel HOUSEKEEPING, are about our society's obsession with consumerism and economics, at the expense of any kind of profound thinking or respect for knowledge. Her topics include the McGuffey readers, creationism, John Calvin, and environmentalism.
Robinson brings her moral indignation to bear on the dangers to the environment posed by the Sellafield plutonium reprocessing plant in England's Lake District.
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Publisher: Skidmore College
Date Published: 2006
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Wilson, Robert (Ed. ); Etzioni, Amitai; Honicker, Nancy; Robinson, Marilynne; Wills, Garry; Zinsser, William; Stone, Nan;...
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Phi Beta Kappa Society
Date Published: 2006
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Marilynne Robinson, Octavio Paz, Daniel Harris, Jean Elshtain, Stanley Kauffmann, Tzvetahn Todorov, J. M. Coetzee, Regina Janes
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Publisher: Boston University
Date Published: 1988
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