What Are We Doing Here? Lib/E: Essays Contributor(s): Robinson, Marilynne (Author), MacDuffie, Carrington (Read by) |
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ISBN: 1538438143 ISBN-13: 9781538438145 Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
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BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Essays - Religion | Christianity - General |
Themes: - Religious Orientation - Christian |
Features: Unabridged |
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Publisher Description: Marilynne Robinson has plumbed the human spirit in her renowned novels, including Lila, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Gilead, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. In this new essay collection she trains her incisive mind on our modern political climate and the mysteries of faith. Whether she is investigating how the work of great thinkers about America, like Ralph Waldo Emerson and Alexis de Tocqueville, inform our political consciousness or discussing how beauty informs and disciplines daily life, Robinson's peerless prose and boundless humanity are on full display. What Are We Doing Here? is a call for Americans to continue the tradition of those great thinkers and to remake American political and cultural life as deeply impressed by obligation and as] a great theater of heroic generosity, which, despite all, is sometimes palpable still. |
Contributor Bio(s): Robinson, Marilynne: - Marilynne Robinson is the author of the novels Lila, Home, Gilead (winner of the Pulitzer Prize), and Housekeeping, and five books of nonfiction: The Givenness of Things, When I Was a Child I Read Books, Mother Country, The Death of Adam, and Absence of Mind. She lives in Iowa. MacDuffie, Carrington: -Carrington MacDuffie is a voice actor and recording artist who has narrated over two hundred audiobooks, received numerous AudioFile Earphones Awards, and has been a frequent finalist for the Audie Award, including for her original audiobook, Many Things Invisible. Alongside her narration work, she has released a new album of original songs, Only an Angel. |
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