Marilynne Robinson
1) Housekeeping
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English
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"A modern classic, Marilynne Robinson's 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 lake in the Far West, the same lake where their grandfather died in a spectacular...
2) Gilead
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award, GILEAD is a
3) Jack
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Kirkus Reviews: The Best Fiction Books of 2020
New Books for the Pueblo Chieftain: September 29, 2020
New Books for the Pueblo Chieftain: September 29, 2020
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"A new Gilead novel that tells the story of John Ames Boughton, the beloved, erratic, and grieved-over prodigal son of a Presbyterian minister from Gilead, Iowa"--
4) Lila
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
261 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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A new American classic from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of GileadGilead and Home, a National Book Award finalist, Lila is a moving expression of the mysteries of existence that is destined to become an American classic.A Macmillan Audio production.
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English
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At the time when Robinson wrote this book, the largest known source of radioactive contamination of the world's environment was a government-owned nuclear plant called Sellafield, not far from Wordsworth's cottage in the Lakes District; one child in sixty was dying from leukemia in the village closest to the plant. The central question of this eloquently impassioned book is: How can a country that we persist in calling a welfare state consciously...
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Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
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 Prize–Winning 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.
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English
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When I Was a Child: A "When I Was a Child I read Books" Essat by Marilynne RobinsonMarilynne 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.
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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The spirit of our times can appear to be one of joyless urgency. As a culture we have become less interested in the exploration of the glorious mind, and more interested in creating technologies for material well-being. But while cultural pessimism is always fashionable, there is still much to give us hope. In The Givenness of Things, Marilynne Robinson delivers an impassioned critique of our contemporary society while arguing that reverence must...
9) Gilead
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Deutsch
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Marilynne Robinson ist die viel bewunderte amerikanische Meistererzählerin. Einfühlsam und eindringlich spürt sie den ersten und den letzten Fragen nach.
Auf dem Sterbebett schreibt John Ames einen Brief an seinen siebenjährigen Sohn. Dem Kind will er alles erklären: Die Einsicht, mit der man das eigene Leben auf einen Schlag begreift, den Trost, der in einer einzelnen Berührung liegen kann, und den Ort, der sein Ende beschließt - Gilead,...
10) Reading Genesis
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 volume ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Marilynne Robinson, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Humanities Medal, presents a thrilling, radiant interpretation of the first book of the Bible"--