When I Was A Child I Read Books
Author | : Marilynne Robinson |
Publisher | : Hachette UK |
Total Pages | : 143 |
Release | : 2012-03-22 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780748129362 |
ISBN-13 | : 0748129367 |
Rating | : 4/5 (62 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: From the author of the magnificent, award-winning novels GILEAD, HOME and LILA comes this wonderful, heart-warming collection of essays about reading. 'Grace and intelligence ...[her work] defines universal truths about what it means to be human' Barack Obama Marilynne Robinson is not only a writer of sharp, subtly moving fiction, but also a rigorous thinker and incisive essayist. In this luminous 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.