by Robinson, Marilynne

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Format:
Hardback
ISBN:
9781844087716
Published:
22 March 2012
Publisher:
Virago
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Of Marilynne Robinson, Michael Arditti said that there is 'no contemporary novelist whose work I would rather read' However she is not only a writer of sharp, subtly moving prose, but also a rigorous thinker and incisive essayist. In this luminous new collection she returns to the themes which have preoccupied her bestselling novels: the place literature has in life, the role of faith in modern living, the contradictions inherent in human nature. Clear-eyed and forceful as ever, Robinson demonstrates once again why she is regarded as one of our best-loved writers.

  • When I was a child I read books / News / Daily Telegraph / Monday / 28 Jan 2013

    The American writer Marilynne Robinson has been shortlisted for the £60,000 Man Booker International Prize. Robinson, who was nominated in 2011 for the award and won the Orange Prize in 2005, is one of ten authors from across the globe to be in the running for the prize which does not honour one particular work but a lifetime's achievement in fiction. › Read full review

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  • When I Was a Child I read Books / Feature / Guardian / Saturday / 29 Dec 2012

    Feature: Guardian books of the year 2012

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  • When I was a child I read books / Feature / Times Literary Supplement / Friday / 30 Nov 2012

    Headline:Books of the Year

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  • When I was a child I read books / Feature / Guardian / Saturday / 24 Nov 2012

    Feature: Guardian 2012 Books of the Year

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  • When I was a child I read books / Feature / Guardian / Saturday / 24 Nov 2012

    Feature: Guardian 2012 Books of the Year

    Star Rating: 4 Stars

  • When I was a child I read books / Interview / New Statesman / Monday / 13 Aug 2012

    Headline: Sophie Elmhirst encounters the singular mind of Marilynne Robinson

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  • When I was a child I read books / Feature / Spectator / Saturday / 26 May 2012

    Feature: Marilynne Robinson, Obama's favourite contemporary novelist, says we all have a duty to raise our intellectual game

    Star Rating: 4 Stars

  • When I was a child I read books / Review / Irish Times / Saturday / 28 Apr 2012

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  • When I was a child I read books / Review / "Sunday Business Post, Ireland" / Sunday / 08 Apr 2012

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  • When I was a child I read books / Review / Scotsman / Saturday / 31 Mar 2012

    Star Rating: 3 Stars

  • Open Book / Arts / BBC Radio 4 / Thursday / 29 Mar 2012 / 15:30

    Mariella Frostrup talks to Marilynne Robinson about her new collection of essays, When I Was a Child I Read Books.

  • When I was a child I read books / Review / New Statesman / Monday / 26 Mar 2012

    Star Rating: 3 Stars

  • When I Was a Child I Read Books / Review / Sunday Times / Sunday / 25 Mar 2012

    Star Rating: 3 Stars

  • When I was a child I read books / Review / "Sunday Herald, Scotland" / Sunday / 25 Mar 2012

    Star Rating: 4 Stars

  • Open Book / Arts / BBC Radio 4 / Sunday / 25 Mar 2012 / 16:00

    Mariella Frostrup talks to Marilynne Robinson about her new collection of essays, When I Was a Child I Read Books.