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- Title: Toward a Dialogue on Marilynne Robinson's Gilead and Home (FROM the Guest Editor)
- Author : R. Scott LaMascus
- Release Date : January 01, 2010
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,Religion & Spirituality,Politics & Current Events,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 61 KB
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A long-time faculty member of the Iowa Writer's Workshop, Marilynne Robinson has been recognized widely and consistently for the quality of her fiction: Housekeeping (1980) won the Hemingway/PEN award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer; Gilead (2004) was awarded the Pulitzer as well as the National Book Critics Circle Award; and Home (2007) was a National Book Award finalist and winner of Britain's Orange Prize. In 1987 Robinson's first novel also was made into a film directed by Bill Forsythe, starring Christine Lahti. Three non-fiction works, Mother Country (1989), The Death of Adam (1998), and the forthcoming Absence of Mind (scheduled for release in 2010) develop arguments on a wide range of topics from evolutionary theory to nuclear pollution to John Calvin. As Michael Dirda testifies in his review of Gilead, one rereads Robinson's sentences "sometimes for their beauty, sometimes for their truth." Moreover, Robinson's courage in confronting contemporary culture in a fresh and unabashedly Christian way draws her readers, reviewers, and scholars into dialogue. Dirda touches on the religious dimension of her prose: "It is so serenely beautiful, and written in a prose so gravely measured and thoughtful, that one feels touched with grace just to read it" Robinson's stories and characters not only delight and instruct but also deeply move us on matters of Christian faith. Perhaps James Wood best articulates the context in which Robinson's writing sounds the chords of American faith.
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