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A New York Times Book Review Editors'' Choice
A New York Times Bestseller
A New York Magazine Best Book of the Year
An Economist Best Book of the Year
Pulitzer PrizeWinning Author of Gilead

Marilynne Robinson has built a sterling reputation as a writer of sharp, subtly moving prose, not only as a major American novelist, but also as a rigorous thinker and incisive essayist.

In When I Was a Child I Read Books she returns to and expands upon the themes which have preoccupied her work with renewed vigor.

In Austerity as Ideology, she tackles the global debt crisis, and the charged political and social political climate in this country that makes finding a solution to our financial troubles so challenging. In Open Thy Hand Wide she searches out the deeply embedded role of generosity in Christian faith. And in When I Was a Child, one of her most personal essays to date, an account of her ch

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      Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 13/03/2012
      ISBN13: 9780374298784, 978-0374298784
      ISBN10: 0374298785

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      A New York Times Book Review Editors'' Choice
      A New York Times Bestseller
      A New York Magazine Best Book of the Year
      An Economist Best Book of the Year
      Pulitzer PrizeWinning Author of Gilead

      Marilynne Robinson has built a sterling reputation as a writer of sharp, subtly moving prose, not only as a major American novelist, but also as a rigorous thinker and incisive essayist.

      In When I Was a Child I Read Books she returns to and expands upon the themes which have preoccupied her work with renewed vigor.

      In Austerity as Ideology, she tackles the global debt crisis, and the charged political and social political climate in this country that makes finding a solution to our financial troubles so challenging. In Open Thy Hand Wide she searches out the deeply embedded role of generosity in Christian faith. And in When I Was a Child, one of her most personal essays to date, an account of her ch

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