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Other editions: Hardcover - 2008

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Housekeeping

Marilynne Robinson

The story of Ruth, who grows up, with her sister Lucille, under the care of her grandmother, two comically fumbling great-aunts, and the transient sister of her dead mother. HOUSEKEEPING is a quiet, humorous book that turns eccentricity into poetry, praises the orphan in us all, and transforms everyday life into a kind of sacred myth.

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Other editions: 2006, 2005, Softcover - 2004, Hardcover - 2004, Softcover - 1988

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Gilead

Marilynne Robinson

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Other editions: 2005, 2005, Hardcover - 2005, Softcover - 2005, 2005, Hardcover - 2004

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The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought

Marilynne Robinson

In the tradition of nineteenth-century novelists who turned to the essay, Robinson offers a beautiful and authoritative approach to refining the ideas our culture has handed down to us. Whether considering how the McGuffey readers were inspired by midwestern abolitionists or how John Calvin, who was a Frenchman in Geneva, points to America's continental origins, Robinson writes with great conviction.

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Other editions: Softcover - 2005, Hardcover - 1998

Puritans and Prigs

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Housekeeping, Mother Country

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Mother Country

Marilynne Robinson

In this powerful, eloquent, and elucidating essay, Marilynne Robinson has pinpointed exactly the motives and the mythology and the reality behind the destruction of our planet. The Sellafield nuclear reprocessing plant in Great Britain is a perfect metaphor for twentieth-century genocide. Not the small, insane eruptions of eradication that took place in Hitler's Germany, but rather that routine, day-to-day, thoroughly "democratic" envenomation of the planet by a current industrial magic (encouraged, or at least condoned, by almost everybody), which threatens to terminate everything on earth in the quite foreseeable future. Robinson's book is as powerful a contribution to the literature of revelation and protest as was that seminal photographic essay by W. Eugene and Aileen Smith on Minamata's disease fifteen years ago. It is as bloodcurdling as Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, as thought-provoking and prophetic as the best works of people like Barry Commoner and Loren Eiseley. This is a work of great intelligence and fine investigative reporting. It is also a lucid interpretation of history, and very important in its discussions of the roots of current dilemmas. And lastly, Mother Country is courageous, and marvelous literature at its best.

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Other editions: Softcover - 1990, Hardcover - 1989