books by Marilynne Robinson

books by Marilynne Robinson

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Marilynne Robinson

Marilynne Robinson

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008

Can You Go Home Again?
When Glory Boughton returns home to Gilead to care for her ailing father, she carries with her the regrets and fantasies of a life of her own - now abandoned. But soon after her return to the old homestead, her prodigal brother Jack writes a letter, announcing that ...

The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought

Marilynne Robinson

Picador, 2005

Required Reading For Adults
"The Death of Adam" is unapologetically written for folks who actually value the activity of thinking. Robinson's writing style, as with her novels, requires some adjusting. She actually expects us to hold a thought in our head as she rambles a bit as the muse of ...

Housekeeping: A Novel

Marilynne Robinson

Picador, 2004

Artistic and moving
"Housekeeping" is not a novel for the faint of heart. Although at its surface it the fantastic tale of two girls it is, in reality, a comment on our relationship to place and home and our conception of the meaning of family. Robinson's writing is such that the reader ...

Onward, Christian liberals: faith is not about piety or personal salvation, but about helping those in need.: ...

Marilynne Robinson

Thomson Gale, 2006

Jesus was a liberal
The writing in this essay is a dense chew but worth the effort. Robinson writes a defense of doubt and conscience as holiness and distinguishes that definition from the today's evangelical holiness of smug certainty. Doubt and fallibility are okay and real and leave ...

Gilead: A Novel

Marilynne Robinson

Picador, 2006

Grace
This book is full of grace. An old minister, who knows he is dying, writes letters to his young son, telling him who he is, what he observes and believes. The epistlatory format and slow moving narrative might put off some readers who crave overt conflict and action ...

Mother Country

Marilynne Robinson

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1989

Meticulously crafted account of British plutonium pollution.
In a life time of reading one may come across a book or two written with both great passion and linguistic craft. Marilynne Robinson's Mother Country is one such work. These two hundred thirty odd pages bristle and glisten with insight, logic, and control of the ...

Home unabridged on 10 CDs
Marilynne Robinson

Macmillan Publishing, 2008

The latest novel by the Pulitzer prize winning author of Gilead.

John Calvin: Steward of God's Covenant: Selected Writings

John Calvin

Vintage, 2006

sanctity of individual conscience
I--Marilynne Robinson--wrote the introduction to this collection. So I wish to assure readers that the account offered above of the author, John Calvin, as promoting a "theocratic state," is not accurate. Indeed, both of the doctrines for which he is said here to be ...

Housekeeping, Mother Country (9031)

Marilynne Robinson

American Audio Prose Library, 1990

Excerpts only!
Just to be clear because I didn't see anything specific on this page---this is a single tape of the author reading from her 2 books. She says at the beginning that she will read the last 2 chapters of HOUSEKEEPING. I can't say (because I don't have the book handy) ...