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

  • Description: xvi, 206 p. ; 22 cm.
  • Edition: 1st ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
  • ISBN: 9780374298784 (alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 0374298785 (alk. paper)

Available copies

  • 11 copies at NOBLE (All Libraries).

Current holds

2 current holds with 15 total copies.

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Beverly Main NEW PS 3568 .O3125 W47 2012 (Text to phone) Available -
Danvers Adult Nonfiction PS 3568 O3125 W47 2012 (Text to phone) Missing -
Gloucester Adult Nonfiction 814.54/Robinson (Text to phone) Missing -
Lynnfield Adult Nonfiction PS 3568 .O3125 W47 2012 (Text to phone) Available -
Marblehead Adult New Nonfiction NEW 814.54 ROBINSON 2012 (Text to phone) Reshelving -
Melrose New Books (Browsing Room) 814.54 Robinson (Text to phone) Available -
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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.
Philosophy, American.
United States > Civilization > Philosophy.