Books by Marilynne Robinson
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review 1: I've never read any of Marilynne Robinson so I can happily comment on the previous questions "Can this book be a stand alone" YES absolutely , Gilead was never on my radar. It will be now! I have started and stopped so many books this year for various reasons most often becau...
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review 1: I have previously read Marilynne Robinson's novels 'Gilead' and 'Home', which I enjoyed tremendously. This was my first attempt at a non-fiction writing. She writes excellently, and I appreciated much of her thinking and commentary in these essays on American life -- topics like ...
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review 1: As usual, Marilynne Robinson's point of view--in this case on the question of our current cultural assumptions about the human mind--is refreshingly original, steeped in scholarship and deep reading, and thought-provoking. She places the current positivist, "parascientific" world...