What are We Doing Here?
$25.85
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
11 March 2019
Summary
New essays by the Orange and Pulitzer Prize winning author of GILEAD, HOME, and LILA. In this collection, Marilynne Robinson, one of today’s most important thinkers—admired by President Obama, and so many others—impels us to action and offers us hope.
Marilynne Robinson has plumbed the human spirit in her renowned novels, including LILA, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award; HOME, winner of the Orange Prize; and…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349010441 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0349010447 |
| Author: | Marilynne Robinson |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 11 March 2019 |
| Weight: | 260g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 126mm x 26mm |
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Robinson urges her audience to stand by what makes us human - “creative, knowing, efficacious, deeply capable of loyalty”. The argument is sophisticated and persuasive
Grace and intelligence … [her work] defines universal truths about what it means to be human
Robinson urges her audience to stand by what makes us human - “creative, knowing, efficacious, deeply capable of loyalty”. The argument is sophisticated and persuasive - GuardianA bracing, stringent book that continually challenges the reader - TelegraphAbout The Author
Marilynne Robinson
Marilynne Robinson is the author of Gilead, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award; Home, winner of the Orange Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; Lila, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award; and Jack, a New York Times bestseller. Her first novel, Housekeeping, won the PEN/Hemingway Award. Robinson’s non-fiction books include The Givenness of Things, When I Was a Child I Read Books, Absence of Mind, The Death of Adam, and Mother Country. She is the recipient of a 2012 National Humanities Medal, awarded by President Barack Obama, for ‘her grace and intelligence in writing.’ Robinson lives in Iowa City, Iowa.
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