When I Was A Child I Read Books

When I Was A Child I Read Books

by Marilynne Robinson (Author)

Synopsis

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.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 224
Publisher: Virago
Published: 22 Mar 2012

ISBN 10: 1844087719
ISBN 13: 9781844087716
Book Overview: * From the author of the magnificent, award-winning novels GILEAD and HOME comes this, a collection of wonderful, heart-warming essays about reading

Author Bio
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 won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2005. Home won the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2009.