Book
When I was a child I read books
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
2012
Abstract
In this new collection of incisive essays, Robinson returns to the themes which have preoccupied her work: the role of faith in modern life, the inadequacy of fact, the contradictions inherent in human nature.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- When I was a child I read books
- Creators
- Marilynne Robinson
- Resource Type
- Book
- Table of contents
- Freedom of thought -- Imagination and community -- Austerity as ideology -- Open thy hand wide : Moses and the origins of American liberalism -- When I was a child -- The fate of ideas : Moses -- Wondrous love -- The human spirit and the good society -- Who was Oberlin? -- Cosmology.
- ISBN
- 9780374298784; 0374298785
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux; New York
- Format
- xvi, 206 pages ; 22 cm
- Number of pages
- xvi, 206 pages
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2012
- Academic Unit
- Writers’ Workshop
- Record Identifier
- 9985014806902771
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