The Givenness of Things: Essays
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| Rating | : | 4.72 (826 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1250097312 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 336 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-02-10 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Brilliant and Heartwarming" according to Wilson. In full disclosure I was already a huge Robinson fan. I read her first novel, Housekeeping, six times and would have read it twenty had Gilead and Lila not intervened. I've given the paperback editions as sort of shibboleths to prospective friends and I traveled a hundred miles in a Michigan winter to hear her lecture. I also share th. a unique book Mark bennett This is a really unique book. Marilynne Robinson is a contender for the last American intellectual. She manages in this book to produce 17 interesting, well thought out and occasionally provocative essays. She speaks against the growing American polarization, the "fear" culture and for the place of the humanities and religion in life.. a wonderful book in regard to it's defense of the substance of life. A beautifully written book, though the author can't resist displaying her profound learning by using words that no-ones ever heard of, so keep a (good) dictionary at hand. it's the clearest defense of the 'spiritual' life i have read. science is supposedly the latest discipline that is going to answer all our questions, the last in a
She teaches at the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop and lives in Iowa City. Her first novel, Housekeeping, won the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. . Marilynne Robinson is the recipient of a 2012 National Humanities Medal, awarded by President Barack Obama, for "her grace and intelligence in writing." She is the author ofGilead, winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award, Home, winner of the Orange Prize and
These seventeen essays examine the ideas that have inspired and provoked one of our finest writers throughout her life. WITH A TWO-PART INTERVIEW BETWEEN MARILYNNE ROBINSON AND PRESIDENT OBAMA THAT FIRST APPEARED IN THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKSThe incomparable Marilynne Robinson has delivered an impassioned critique of contemporary societyour addiction to technology, our materialismwhile arguing that reverence must be given to who we are and what we are: creatures of singular interest and value, despite our errors and depredations.Robinson has plumbed the depths of the human spirit both in her novels, including the National Book Critics Circle Award–winning Lila and the Pulitzer Prize–winning Gilead, and in her new essay collection she trains her incisive mind on our modern predicament and the mysteries of faith. Whether she is investigating how the work of the great thinkers of the pastCalvin, Locke, Bonhoeffer, and Shakespearecan infuse our lives, or drawing attention to the rise of the self-declared elite in American religious and political life, Robinson’s peerless prose and boundless humanity are on display.Exquisite and bold, The Givenness of Things is a ne
One of Time's Top 10 Nonfiction Books of 2015"A sense of wonder pervades the powerful essays in The Givenness of Things Robinson's heroic lamentation is magnificent Robinson's insistence, throughout these essays, that we recognize the limitations of our knowledge is timely and important." Karen Armstrong, The New York Times Book Review“These are beautiful essays beautiful in thought and beautiful in expression.” Bill Marvel, Dallas Morning News