Home: A Novel from Farrar, Straus and Giroux Price: $16.50
Customer Review: I was very disappointed in Home. Very slow and almost boring. I read the reviews prior to purchasing this book and most were favorable. Sorry, but I did not think so. I did finish it but it felt like a struggle!
Customer Review: What an amazing book! Quiet, thoughtful, slow-moving....but so thought provoking. Events unfold delicately, memories surface gently -- there's a wistfulness to this book that is rarely found. It's hard to believe that this book was not written by a male minister, it so completely gets into his head... more info
Customer Review: Marilynne Robinson's masterfully told story of an atypical "housekeeping" arrangement is strange, funny, sad, lyrical, and inspiring. It is one of the most beautiful books I have read in a long time. I found myself savoring the words, reading aloud to myself. This is a wonderful book.
Customer Review: Our author takes the position that not only are we the product of the "dumbing down of America", but we've allowed our thought processes to become "dumbed down" as well. She then gives us a series of essays to prove her point, essays that are peppered with obscure words utilizing their most obscure... more info
Mother Country from Farrar, Straus and Giroux Price: $19.80
Customer Review: The book Mother Country is made up of two parts. The first is a history of the British welfare system. The second is about nuclear fuel reprocessing and plutonium production at Sellafield (Windscale). Both are interesting, but the author has made too little effort to address the relationship between... more info
Customer Review: I--Marilynne Robinson--wrote the introduction to this collection. So I wish to assure readers that the account offered above of the author, John Calvin, as promoting a "theocratic state," is not accurate. Indeed, both of the doctrines for which he is said here to be famous are in fact cliches about... more info
Customer Review: The writing in this essay is a dense chew but worth the effort. Robinson writes a defense of doubt and conscience as holiness and distinguishes that definition from the today's evangelical holiness of smug certainty. Doubt and fallibility are okay and real and leave plenty of room to act in the way... more info
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