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The givenness of things essays

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Main Author: Robinson, Marilynne
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015.
Edition:First edition.
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Philosophical theology.
Christianity > Philosophy.
Christian philosophy.
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Physical Description:pages cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9780374298470 (hardcover)
0374298475 (hardcover)
Author Notes:Marilynne Robinson's first novel, Housekeeping, won the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. Her other novels include Mother Country and Lila. Gilead won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award and Home won the Orange Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Her nonfiction books include When I Was a Child I Read Books, Absence of Mind, and The Death of Adam. She was the recipient of a 2012 National Humanities Medal, awarded by President Barack Obama. She received the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction in 2016. She has been named the winner of the Richard C Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award as part of the 2016 Dayton Literary Peace Prize. She was included on Time magazine's annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world.

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