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When I Was a Child I Read Books audiobook
- By: Marilynne Robinson
- Narrator: Marilynne Robinson
- Category: Essays, Religion
- Length: 7 hours 25 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: March 13, 2012
- Language: English
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When I Was a Child I Read Books Audiobook Summary
A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
A New York Times Bestseller
A New York Magazine Best Book of the Year
An Economist Best Book of the Year
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author of Gilead
Marilynne Robinson has built a sterling reputation as a writer of sharp, subtly moving prose, not only as a major American novelist, but also as a rigorous thinker and incisive essayist.
In When I Was a Child I Read Books she returns to and expands upon the themes which have preoccupied her work with renewed vigor.
In “Austerity as Ideology,” she tackles the global debt crisis, and the charged political and social political climate in this country that makes finding a solution to our financial troubles so challenging. In “Open Thy Hand Wide” she searches out the deeply embedded role of generosity in Christian faith. And in “When I Was a Child,” one of her most personal essays to date, an account of her childhood in Idaho becomes an exploration of individualism and the myth of the American West. Clear-eyed and forceful as ever, Robinson demonstrates once again why she is regarded as one of our essential writers.
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When I Was a Child I Read Books Audiobook Narrator
Marilynne Robinson is the narrator of When I Was a Child I Read Books audiobook that was written by Marilynne Robinson
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 of Gilead, winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award; Home, winner of the Orange Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; and Lila, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her first novel, Housekeeping, won the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. Robinson’s nonfiction books include The Givenness of Things, When I Was a Child I Read Books, Absence of Mind, The Death of Adam, and Mother Country. She lives in Iowa City, Iowa.
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When I Was a Child I Read Books Full Details
| Narrator | Marilynne Robinson |
| Length | 7 hours 25 minutes |
| Author | Marilynne Robinson |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Macmillan Audio |
| Release date | March 13, 2012 |
| ISBN | 9781427226785 |
Additional info
The publisher of the When I Was a Child I Read Books is Macmillan Audio. The imprint is Macmillan Audio. It is supplied by Macmillan Audio. The ISBN-13 is 9781427226785.
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This book is only available in the United States.
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