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When I was a child I read books / Marilynne Robinson

By:

Robinson, Marilynne

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 2012.Edition: 1st edDescription: xvi, 206 p. ; 22 cmISBN:

9780374298784

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

814.54 ROB

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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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	814.54 ROB (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		010976

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-206).

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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