Marilynne Robinson

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born

November 26, 1943 in Sandpoint, Idaho, The United States

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female

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Literature & Fiction, Religion & Spirituality

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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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Books by Marilynne Robinson

Average rating: 3.78 · 36,954 ratings · 6,573 reviews · 10 distinct works

	Gilead 3.73 avg rating — 19,623 ratings — published 2004 — 25 editions	My rating:
	Housekeeping 3.83 avg rating — 11,157 ratings — published 1980 — 27 editions	My rating:
	Home 3.83 avg rating — 4,941 ratings — published 2008 — 25 editions	My rating:
	The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought 4.07 avg rating — 348 ratings — published 2000 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Absence of Mind: The Dispelling of Inwardness from the Modern Myth of the Self 3.60 avg rating — 215 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	My rating:
	When I Was a Child I Read Books 3.95 avg rating — 174 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Mother Country: Britain, the Welfare State, and Nuclear Pollution 3.47 avg rating — 19 ratings — 7 editions	My rating:
	Housekeeping, Mother Country 3.82 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1990	My rating:
	Puritans And Prigs 1.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1999	My rating:
	When I Was a Child I Read Book: Essays 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2012	My rating:

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Quotes by Marilynne Robinson

“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

tags: sunday-life

94 people liked it

“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

tags: crave , craving , foreshadowing , lack , longing , loss , need , shadow , wholeness , wish

76 people liked it

“Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping

tags: loneliness

61 people liked it

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