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When I was a child I read books / Marilynne Robinson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012.Description: xvi, 206 p. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9780374298784
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PS3568.O3125   W47 2012
Contents:
Freedom of thought -- Imagination and community -- Austerity as ideology -- Open thy hand wide : Moses and the origins of American liberalism -- When I was a child -- The fate of ideas : Moses -- Wondrous love -- The human spirit and the good society -- Who was Oberlin? -- Cosmology.
Summary: In this new collection of incisive essays, Robinson returns to the themes which have preoccupied her work: the role of faith in modern life, the inadequacy of fact, the contradictions inherent in human nature.
Item type: Book
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Bishop Okullu Memorial Library (Limuru Campus) General Circulation Fiction PS3568.O3125 W47 2012 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 041586
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Freedom of thought -- Imagination and community -- Austerity as ideology -- Open thy hand wide : Moses and the origins of American liberalism -- When I was a child -- The fate of ideas : Moses -- Wondrous love -- The human spirit and the good society -- Who was Oberlin? -- Cosmology.

In this new collection of incisive essays, Robinson returns to the themes which have preoccupied her work: the role of faith in modern life, the inadequacy of fact, the contradictions inherent in human nature.

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