![]() In "Open Thy Hand Wide," she searches out the deeply embedded role of generosity in Christian faith. In "Austerity as Ideology," she tackles the global debt crisis and the charged political and social climate in America that makes finding a solution to the country's financial troubles so challenging. Her compelling and demanding collection The Death of Adam-in which she reflects upon her Presbyterian upbringing, investigates the roots of Midwestern abolitionism and mounts a memorable defence of Calvinism-is respected as a classic of the genre, and praised by Doris Lessing as "a useful antidote to the increasingly crude and slogan-loving culture we inhabit." In When I Was a Child I Read Books, Robinson returns to and expands upon the themes that have preoccupied her work with renewed vigour. ![]() Ever since the 1981 publication of her stunning debut, Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson has built a sterling reputation as a writer of sharp, subtly moving prose, not only as a major American novelist (her second novel, Gilead, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize), but also as a rigorous thinker and incisive essayist. ![]()
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