What are We Doing Here? by Marilynne Robinson

What are We Doing Here? by Marilynne Robinson

New essays by the Orange and Pulitzer Prize winning author of Gilead, Home and Lila. In this collection, Marilynne Robinson, one of today's most important thinkers - admired by President Obama, and so many others - impels us to action and offers us hope.

Robinson urges her audience to stand by what makes us human - "creative, knowing, efficacious, deeply capable of loyalty"The argument is sophisticated and persuasive * Guardian *
A bracing, stringent book that continually challenges the reader * Telegraph *
There is much rich matter in these essays. They are simultaneously challenging, disturbing and rewarding * Catholic Herald *

Marilynne Robinson, author of Housekeeping, Gilead, Home, Lila and Jack, is the winner of the Hemingway PEN award, the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Women's Prize for Fiction and has twice been nominated for the International Booker Prize. She has also published six volumes of essays. In 2012 she was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Obama and in 2016 she was given The Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction and was one of Time magazine's list of 100 most influential people. She lives in Iowa.

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ISBN 13	9780349010465
ISBN 10	0349010463
Title	What are We Doing Here?
Author	Marilynne Robinson
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Little, Brown Book Group
Year published	2018-02-20
Number of pages	336
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