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Reading Genesis
Marilynne Robinson
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For generations, the Book of Genesis has been treated by scholars
as a collection of documents by various hands expressing different
factional interests, with borrowings from other ancient literatures
that mark the text as derivative. In other words, academic
interpretation of Genesis has centered on the question of its basic
coherency, just as fundamentalist interpretation has centered on
the question of the appropriateness of reading it as literally
true. Both of these approaches preclude an appreciation of its
greatness as literature, its rich articulation and exploration of
themes that resonate through the whole of Scripture. Marilynne
Robinson's new book is a powerful consideration of the profound
meanings and promise of God's enduring covenant with man. Her
magisterial book radiates gratitude for the constancy and
benevolence of God's abiding faith in Creation.
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Reading Genesis
Marilynne Robinson
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'Grace and intelligence . . . [her work] defines universal truths
about what it means to be human' BARACK OBAMA 'Radiant and
visionary' SARAH PERRY, GUARDIAN A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A
BARACK OBAMA BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 AN OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK
Marilynne Robinson, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the American
National Humanities Medal, returns to the world of Gilead with
Jack, the final in one of the great works of contemporary American
fiction. Jack tells the story of John Ames Boughton, the loved and
grieved-over prodigal son of a Presbyterian minister in Gilead,
Iowa, a drunkard and a ne'er-do-well. In segregated St. Louis
sometime after World War II, Jack falls in love with Della Miles,
an African-American high school teacher, also a preacher's child,
with a discriminating mind, a generous spirit and an independent
will. Their fraught, beautiful story is one of Robinson's greatest
achievements. 'Jack is the fourth in Robinson's luminous, profound
Gilead series and perhaps the best yet' OBSERVER
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In a Time of Witness
Nnuro; Foreword by Marilynne Robinson
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'A classic.' Guardian 'A masterpiece.' The New Yorker 'I just adore
this book and have probably reread it a hundred times.' Michelle
Zauner From the Orange Prize winning author of Home and Gilead.
Housekeeping is the story of Ruth and Lucille, orphans growing up
in the small desolate town of Fingerbone in the vast northwest of
America. Abandoned by a succession of relatives, the sisters find
themselves in the care of Sylvie, the remote and enigmatic sister
of their dead mother. Steeped in imagery of the bleak wintry
landscape around them, the sisters' struggle towards adulthood is
powerfully portrayed in a novel about loss, loneliness and
transience.
As a pandemic and racial reckoning exposed society's faults,
Christian thinkers were laying the groundwork for a better future.
A public health and economic crisis provoked by Covid-19. A social
crisis cracked open by the filmed murder of George Floyd. A
leadership crisis laid bare as the gravity of a global pandemic met
a country suffocating in political polarization and idolatry. In
the spring of 2020, Comment magazine created a publishing project
to tap the resources of a Christian humanist tradition to respond
collaboratively and imaginatively to these crises. Plough soon
joined in the venture. So did seventeen other institutions. The web
commons that resulted - Breaking Ground - became a one-of-a-kind
space to probe society's assumptions, interrogate our own hearts,
and imagine what a better future might require. This volume,
written in real time during a year that revealed the depths of our
society's fissures, provides a wealth of reflections and proposals
on what should come after. It is an anthology of different lenses
of faith seeking to understand how best we can serve the broader
society and renew our civilization. Contributors include Anne
Snyder, Susannah Black, Mark Noll, N. T. Wright, Gracy Olmstead,
Doug Sikkema, Patrick Pierson, Jennifer Frey, J. L. Wall, Michael
Wear, Dante Stewart, Joe Nail, Benya Kraus, Patrick Tomassi, Amy
Julia Becker, Jeffrey Bilbro, Marilynne Robinson, Cherie Harder,
Joel Halldorf, Irena Dragas Jansen, Katherine Boyle, L. M. Sacasas,
Jake Meador, Joshua Bombino, Chelsea Langston Bombino, Aryana
Petrosky Roberts, Stuart McAlpine, Heather C. Ohaneson, Oliver
O'Donovan, W. Bradford Littlejohn, Anthony M. Barr, Michael Lamb,
Shadi Hamid, Samuel Kimbriel, Christine Emba, Brandon McGinley,
John Clair, Kurt Armstrong, Peter Wehner, Jonathan Haidt, Dhananjay
Jagannathan, Phil Christman, Gregory Thompson, Duke Kwon, Carlo
Lancellotti, Tara Isabella Burton, Charles C. Camosy, Joseph M.
Keegin, Luke Bretherton, Tobias Cremer, and Elayne Allen.
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Reading Genesis
Marilynne Robinson
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For generations, the Book of Genesis has been treated by scholars
as a collection of documents by various hands expressing different
factional interests, with borrowings from other ancient literatures
that mark the text as derivative. In other words, academic
interpretation of Genesis has centered on the question of its basic
coherency, just as fundamentalist interpretation has centered on
the question of the appropriateness of reading it as literally
true. Both of these approaches preclude an appreciation of its
greatness as literature, its rich articulation and exploration of
themes that resonate through the whole of Scripture. Marilynne
Robinson's new book is a powerful consideration of the profound
meanings and promise of God's enduring covenant with man. Her
magisterial book radiates gratitude for the constancy and
benevolence of God's abiding faith in Creation.
Special edition of Paul Harding's Pulitzer Prize-winning debut
novel--featuring a new foreword by Marilynne Robinson and book club
extras inside In this deluxe tenth anniversary edition, Marilynne
Robinson introduces the beautiful novel Tinkers, which begins with
an old man who lies dying. As time collapses into memory, he
travels deep into his past, where he is reunited with his father
and relives the wonder and pain of his impoverished New England
youth. At once heartbreaking and life affirming, Tinkers is an
elegiac meditation on love, loss, and the fierce beauty of nature.
The story behind this New York Times bestselling debut novel--the
first independently published Pulitzer Prize winner since A
Confederacy of Dunces received the award nearly thirty years
before--is as extraordinary as the elegant prose within it.
Inspired by his family's history, Paul Harding began writing
Tinkers when his rock band broke up. Following numerous rejections
from large publishers, Harding was about to shelve the manuscript
when Bellevue Literary Press offered a contract. After being
accepted by BLP, but before it was even published, the novel
developed a following among independent booksellers from coast to
coast. Readers and critics soon fell in love, and it went on to
receive the Pulitzer Prize, prompting the New York Times to declare
the novel's remarkable success "the most dramatic literary
Cinderella story of recent memory." That story is still being
written as readers across the country continue to discover this
modern classic, which has now sold over half a million copies,
proving once again that great literature has a thriving and
passionate audience. Paul Harding is the author of two novels about
multiple generations of a New England family: Enon and the Pulitzer
Prize-winning Tinkers. He teaches at Stony Brook Southampton.
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD AN OPRAH'S BOOK
CLUB PICK Lila, homeless and alone after years of roaming the
countryside, steps inside a small-town Iowa church - the only
available shelter from the rain - and ignites a romance and a
debate that will reshape her life. 'One of the greatest living
novelists' BRYAN APPLEYARD, SUNDAY TIMES 'Robinson is frequently
named as one of America's most significant writers . . . Her
questioning books express wonder: they are enlightening, in the
best sense, passionately contesting our facile, recycled
understanding of ourselves and of our world' SARAH CHURCHWELL,
GUARDIAN 'The work of an exceptional novelist' ROWAN WILLIAMS, NEW
STATESMAN 'A sumptuous, graceful and ultimately life-affirming
novel' JAMES KIDD, INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY 'Great and luminous beauty
. . . a book that leaves the reader feeling what can only be called
exaltation' NEEL MUKHERJEE, INDEPENDENT
In 1956, toward the end of Reverend John Ames's life, he begins a
letter to his young son, a kind of last testament to his remarkable
forebears.'It is a book of such meditative calm, such spiritual
intensity that is seems miraculous that her silence was only for 23
years; such measure of wisdom is the fruit of a lifetime.
Robinson's prose, aligned with the sublime simplicity of the
language of the Bible, is nothing short of a benediction. You might
not share its faith, but it is difficult not to be awed moved and
ultimately humbled by the spiritual effulgence that lights up the
novel from within' - Neel Mukherjee, "The Times".'Writing of this
quality, with an authority as unforced as the perfect pitch in
music, is rare and carries with it a sense almost of danger - that
at any moment, it might all go wrong. In "Gilead", however, nothing
goes wrong' - Jane Shilling, "Sunday Telegraph".
'[Her work] defines universal truths about what it means to be
human' Barack Obama 'Marilynne Robinson is one of the greatest
writers of our time' Sunday Times 'Jack is the fourth in Robinson's
luminous, profound Gilead series and perhaps the best yet' Observer
Marilynne Robinson, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the American
National Humanities Medal, returns to the world of Gilead with
Jack, the final in one of the great works of contemporary American
fiction. Jack tells the story of John Ames Boughton, the loved and
grieved-over prodigal son of a Presbyterian minister in Gilead,
Iowa, a drunkard and a ne'er-do-well. In segregated St. Louis
sometime after World War II, Jack falls in love with Della Miles,
an African-American high school teacher, also a preacher's child,
with a discriminating mind, a generous spirit and an independent
will. Their fraught, beautiful story is one of Robinson's greatest
achievements.
First published in 1929, Faulkner created his "heart's darling," the beautiful and tragic Caddy Compson, whose story Faulkner told through separate monologues by her three brothers--the idiot Benjy, the neurotic suicidal Quentin and the monstrous Jason.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
In this award-winning collection, the bestselling author of Gilead
offers us other ways of thinking about history, religion, and
society. Whether rescuing Calvinism and its creator Jean Cauvin
from the repressive puritan stereotype, or considering how the
McGuffey readers were inspired by Midwestern abolitionists, or the
divide between the Bible and Darwinism, Marilynne Robinson
repeatedly sends her reader back to the primary texts that are
central to the development of American culture but little read or
acknowledged today. A passionate and provocative celebration of
ideas, the old arts of civilization, and life's mystery, The Death
of Adam is, in the words of Robert D. Richardson, Jr., a grand,
sweeping, blazing, brilliant, life-changing book.
New essays by the Women's Prize and Pulitzer Prize winning author
of Gilead, Home and Lila. In this collection, Marilynne Robinson
impels us to action and offers us hope. 'Grace and intelligence
...[her work] defines universal truths about what it means to be
human' BARACK OBAMA 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.
Winner of the Pen/Hemingway Award
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 transcience.
WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2009 Jack Boughton -
prodigal son - has been gone twenty years. He returns home seeking
refuge and to make peace with the past. A bad boy from childhood,
an alcoholic who cannot hold down a job, Jack is perpetually at
odds with his surroundings and with his traditionalist father,
though he remains Boughton's most beloved child. His sister Glory
has also returned, fleeing her own mistakes, to care for their
dying father. A moving book about families, about love and death
and faith, Home is unforgettable. It is a masterpiece. 'One of the
greatest living novelists' BRYAN APPLEYARD, SUNDAY TIMES 'A
luminous, profound and moving piece of writing. There is no
contemporary American novelist whose work I would rather read'
MICHAEL ARDITTI, INDEPENDENT 'Her novels are replete with a sense
of felt life, with a deep and abiding sympathy for her characters
and a full understanding of their inner lives' COLM TOIBIN 'Utterly
haunting' JANE SHILLING, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
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