Marilynne Robinson
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born
November 26, 1943
place of birth
Sandpoint, Idaho, The United States
genre
Literature & Fiction, Religion & Spirituality
about this author
Her 1980 novel, Housekeeping, won a Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for best first novel and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
Her second novel, Gilead, was acclaimed by critics and received the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the 2004 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, and the 2005 Ambassador Book Award.
Her third novel, Home, was published in 2008 and was nominated for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award; it won the Orange Prize.
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Gilead: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson avg rating 3.77 — 8,334 ratings — published 2000 21 editions |
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Housekeeping: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson avg rating 3.92 — 5,255 ratings — published 1980 22 editions |
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Home: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson avg rating 3.96 — 1,428 ratings — published 2008 15 editions |
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The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought by Marilynne Robinson avg rating 3.99 — 176 ratings — published 2000 3 editions |
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Mother Country by Marilynne Robinson avg rating 3.67 — 12 ratings — published 1989 4 editions |
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Housekeeping, Mother Country (9031) by Marilynne Robinson avg rating 4.00 — 7 ratings — published 1990 |
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Gilead by Marilynne Robinson, Tim Jerome avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2005 |
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Gilead by Marilynne Robinson, Tim Jerome avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2005 |
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CHEZ NOUS by Marilynne Robinson avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings |
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Das Auge des Sees by Marilynne Robinson avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 1987 |
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"Sometimes I have loved the peacefulness of an ordinary Sunday. It is like standing in a newly planted garden after a warm rain. You can feel the silent and invisible life."
— Marilynne Robinson (Gilead: A Novel)
— Marilynne Robinson (Gilead: A Novel)
"To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow. For when does a berry break upon the tongue as sweetly as when one longs to taste it, and when is the taste refracted into so many hues and savors of ripeness and earth, and when do our senses know any thing so utterly as when we lack it? And here again is a foreshadowing -- the world will be made whole. For to wish for a hand on one's hair is all but to feel it. So whatever we may lose, very craving gives it back to us again."
— Marilynne Robinson (Housekeeping: A Novel)
— Marilynne Robinson (Housekeeping: A Novel)
"There is no justice in love, no proportion in it, and there need not be, because in any specific instance it is only a glimpse or parable of an embracing, incomprehensible reality. It makes no sense at all because it is the eternal breaking in on the temporal. So how could it subordinate itself to cause or consequence?"
— Marilynne Robinson (Gilead)
— Marilynne Robinson (Gilead)
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| Constant Reader: Gilead by Marilynne Robinson | 121 | 206 | Jan 19, 2009 07:57PM | |
| Constant Reader: The Habit of Being - December 1 | 24 | 151 | Jan 23, 2009 11:15PM | |
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