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Author Robinson, Marilynne.

Title When I was a child I read books / Marilynne Robinson.

Publication Info. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012.

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 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  814.54 ROBINSON    Check Shelf
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  814.54 ROBINSON    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department  814.54 ROB    Storage
 Burlington Public Library - Adult Department  814.54 ROB    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  814.54 ROBINSON    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  814.54 ROB    Check Shelf
 Granby, Main Library - Adult  814.54 ROB    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  814.54 ROBINSON    Check Shelf
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 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  814.54 ROBINSON    Check Shelf

Edition First edition.
Description xvi, 206 pages ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [203]-206).
Contents Freedom of thought -- Imagination and community -- Austerity as ideology -- Open thy hand wide: Moses and the origins of American liberalism -- When I was a child -- The fate of ideas: Moses -- Wondrous love -- The human spirit and the good society -- Who was Oberlin? -- Cosmology.
Summary In this new collection of incisive essays, Robinson returns to the themes which have preoccupied her work: the role of faith in modern life, the inadequacy of fact, the contradictions inherent in human nature.
Subject Theology -- United States.
Calvinism -- United States.
Political science -- United States -- Philosophy.
United States -- Civilization -- Philosophy.
Philosophy, American.
ISBN 9780374298784 alkaline paper $24.00
0374298785 alkaline paper
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