When I Was a Child I Read Books

Author(s): Marilynne Robinson

Words

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.


Product Information

Marilynne Robinson was born in 1947. Her first novel, Housekeeping (1981) received the PEN/Hemingway award for best first novel as well as being nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Gilead also won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.

General Fields

  • : 9781844087723
  • : Little, Brown Book Group
  • : Virago Press Ltd
  • : April 2013
  • : June 2013
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Marilynne Robinson
  • : Paperback