When I was a child I read books, Marilynne Robinson
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When I was a child I read books, Marilynne Robinson
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eng
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-206)
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contains biographical information
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no index present
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non fiction
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When I was a child I read books
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bibliography
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Marilynne Robinson
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
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
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