What are We Doing Here?

Marilynne Robinson

Virago

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. Marilynne Robinson has plumbed the human spirit in her renowned novels, including Lila , winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award; Home , winner of the Orange Prize; 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 Emerson and Tocqueville inform our political consciousness or discussing the way that 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 to continue the tradition of the great thinkers and to remake political and cultural life as "deeply impressed by obligation [and as] a great theatre of heroic generosity, which, despite all, is sometimes palpable still." In our era of rampant political and cultural pessimism, we run the risk of becoming bogged down in disillusionment and of losing sight of ways out of the mire. In What Are We Doing Here? , the incomparable Marilynne Robinson offers us balm: impelling us to action, but offering us hope.

What Are We Doing Here

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Farrar. Straus & Giroux

Gilead

Reading Genesis

Little, Brown Book Group Limited

Jack: A Novel

Farrar. Straus and Giroux

Jack

Mother Country

Literature & Fiction

Faber Faber Inc

Housekeeping

A modern classic, Housekeeping is the story of Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, who grow up haphazardly, first under the care of their competent grandmother, then of two comically bumbling great-aunts, and finally of Sylvie, the eccentric and remote sister of their dead mother. The family house is in the small town of Fingerbone on a glacial lake in the Far West, the same lake where their grandfather died in a spectacular train wreck and their mother drove off a cliff to her death. It is a town 'chastened by an outsized landscape and extravagant weather, and chastened again by an awareness that the whole of human history had occurred elsewhere.' Ruth and Lucille's struggle toward adulthood beautifully illuminates the price of loss and survival, and the dangerous and deep undertow of transience.

Contemporary

Faber&Faber

<p>A best-selling coming-of-age novel tells the story of a dreamy teenager who begins a new life at the lakeside home of her Aunt Sylvie, a thirty-five-year-old misfit, after losing both her parents. Reprint. <i>NYT. </i></p>

Faber and Faber

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