Housekeeping
This is the author’s first novel. It is set in the 1950s, in an imaginary place of the USA, next to a lake.
It deals with the tragic life of two sisters, Ruthie and Lucille: their maternal...
ROBINSON, Marilynne
Lila
Marilynne Robinson is a university lecturer, essayist, literary critic, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Award...
Jack
Jack is Robinson's fifth novel and the fourth in the Gilead sequence, preceded by Gilead (2004), Home (2008), and Lila (2014). Gilead won a Pulitzer Prize and is...
Absence of Mind: The Dispelling of Inwardness from the Modern Myth of the Self
This book provides many examples of the lack of intellectual rigour shown by well-known modern authors who defend their notion of science against religion or metaphysics. Robinson complains that we find...