What are We Doing Here?

Marilynne Robinson

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Little Brown
12 March 2019

Literature, Poetry & Criticism; Literary essays

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.

By: Marilynne Robinson
Imprint: Little Brown
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 196mm, Width: 128mm, Spine: 24mm
Weight: 260g
ISBN: 9780349010441
ISBN 10: 0349010447
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 12 March 2019
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Marilynne Robinson was born in 1947. Her first novel, Housekeeping (1981) received the PEN/Hemingway award for best first novel as well as being nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Gilead won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, and Home won the Orange Prize. Marilynne Robinson was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Obama. Virago publish two other collections of her essays: When I was A Child I Read Books and The Givenness of Things. She lives in Iowa.

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Grace and intelligence . . . [her work] defines universal truths about what it means to be human 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

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