| What Are We Doing Here?: Essays Contributor(s): Blackstone Audio, Robinson, Marilynne (Author), MacDuffie, Carrington |
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ISBN: 1538438151 ISBN-13: 9781538438152 Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks OUR PRICE: $31.46 Product Type: Compact Disc Published: February 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Essays - Religion | Christianity - General |
| Dewey: 814.54 |
| Physical Information: 1.2" H x 5.8" W x 5.6" (0.50 lbs) |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Christian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Marilynne Robinson has plumbed the human spirit in her renowned novels, including Lila, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, 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 Ralph Waldo Emerson and Alexis de Tocqueville, inform our political consciousness or discussing how 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 for Americans to continue the tradition of those great thinkers and to remake American political and cultural life as "deeply impressed by obligation and as] a great theater of heroic generosity, which, despite all, is sometimes palpable still." |