What Are We Doing Here?: Essays
By Marilynne Robinson
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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.”
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Summary
Summary
An Oprah’s Book Club Selection
An Audiofile Magazine “Best of the Year” Audiobook
An Elle Magazine Pick for February 2018
New York Times Pick for Books of the Times
A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice of New Books We Recommend This Week
An Amazon Best Book of the Month in Nonfiction
A Midwest Booksellers Association Pick for March
A BookRiot Pick of Must-Read February New Releases
A BuzzFeed Books Pick of Most Exciting New Books of 2018
A Millions.com Pick of Most Anticipated February Books
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.”
Editorial Reviews
Editorial Reviews
Author
Author Bio: Marilynne Robinson
Marilynne Robinson is the author of numerous books, including 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; Lila, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award; and Jack, a New York Times bestseller. Her first novel, Housekeeping, won the PEN/Hemingway Award. She is the recipient of a 2012 National Humanities Medal, awarded by President Barack Obama, for “her grace and intelligence in writing.”
Details
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| Available Formats : | Digital Download, CD, MP3 CD |
| Category: | Nonfiction/Literary Collections |
| Runtime: | 11.12 |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
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