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Ten essays explore a range of social, political, religious, and cultural issues of the present day, sharing the author's thoughts on Darwinism, McGuffey readers, and the religious right
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Marilynne Robinson is the author of HOUSEKEEPING and MOTHER COUNTRY, which was a finalist for the National Book Award for nonfiction in 1989. She has taught at the University of Iowa Writer's Workshop since 1991. THE DEATH OF ADAM received the PEN/Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. In 1998, Robinson received a Mildred and Harold Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in Iowa City.
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"These essays were written for various uses and
occasions over a number of years. They have
characteristic preoccupations -- religion, history,
the state of contemporary society -- and they are, all
of them, contrarian in method and spirit. They assert,
in one way or another, that the prevailing view of
things can be assumed to be wrong, and that its
opposite, being its image or shadow, can also be
assumed to be wrong. They undertake to demonstrate
that there are other ways of thinking, for which
better arguments can be made." -- from the
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occasions over a number of years. They have
characteristic preoccupations -- religion, history,
the state of contemporary society -- and they are, all
of them, contrarian in method and spirit. They assert,
in one way or another, that the prevailing view of
things can be assumed to be wrong, and that its
opposite, being its image or shadow, can also be
assumed to be wrong. They undertake to demonstrate
that there are other ways of thinking, for which
better arguments can be made." -- from the
Introduction
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