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When I was a child I read books / Marilynne Robinson.

By: Publication details: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012.Edition: 1st edDescription: xvi, 206 p. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9780374298784 (alk. paper)
  • 0374298785 (alk. paper)
  • 9781250024053
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 814/.54 23
LOC classification:
  • PS3568.O3125 W47 2012
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.
Summary: 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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-206).

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.

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.

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