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Ever since the 1981 publication of her stunning debut, Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson has built a sterling reputation as a author of sharp, subtly moving prose, not only as a major American novelist (her second novel, Gilead, was given the Pulitzer Award) but also as a rigorous thinker and incisive essayist. Her compelling and demanding collection The Death of Adam-in which she shown on her behalf Presbyterian upbringing, looked into the roots of Midwestern abolitionism, and installed a memorable security of Calvinism-is respected as a vintage of the genre, praised by Doris Lessing as "a good antidote to the progressively crude and slogan-loving culture we inhabit." In When I Was a kid I Read Literature, Robinson returns to and expands after the themes which may have preoccupied her use restored vigor. In "Austerity as Ideology", she tackles the global arrears crisis, and the billed political and sociopolitical weather in this country which makes finding a solution to our financial troubles so challenging. In "Open Thy Palm Wide" she searches out the deeply inserted role of generosity in Christian faith. And in "AS I Was a kid", one of her most personal essays at this point, a merchant account of her youth in Idaho becomes an exploration of individualism and the misconception of the American West. Clear-eyed and forceful as ever before, Robinson demonstrates once more why she actually is regarded as one of our essential writers.
