Results for 'marilynne robinson'

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  1. Hot Milk
    1. Deborah Levy

    Hot Milk

    Unsettling, challenging and gloriously written, Hot Milk by Deborah Levy is the multi-generational story of a hallucinatory sort of summer

    € 13,95
  2. Olive, Again
    1. Elizabeth Strout

    Olive, Again

    A novel to treasure... Olive, Again, like Strout's first book, delivers roughly five hours of spine-tingling pleasure.

    € 14,95
  3. Gilead
    1. Marilynne Robinson

    Gilead

    An Oprah's Book Club Pick

    WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION and THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD

    € 14,95
  4. Lucy by the Sea
    1. Elizabeth Strout

    Lucy by the Sea

    Stunningly universal . . . with brilliant acuity, Strout has seized on the parallels between Lucy Barton's pervasive sense of alienation and the way the recent global crisis has exposed the helplessness felt by ordinary people everywhere

    € 13,95
  5. Oh William!
    1. Elizabeth Strout

    Oh William!

    One proof of Elizabeth Strout's greatness is the sleight of hand with which she injects sneaky subterranean power into seemingly transparent prose. Strout works in the realm of everyday speech, conjuring repetitions, gaps and awkwardness with plain language and forthright diction, yet at the same time unleashing a tidal urgency that seems to come out of nowhere even as it operates in plain sight

    € 14,95
  6. The Fable of the Bees
    1. Bernard Mandeville
    2. Phillip Harth

    The Fable of the Bees

    A physician with a particular interest in psychological disorders and satirist, the author published versions of his notorious "Fable of the Bees" from 1714 to 1732. Each was a defence and elaboration of his short satirical poem "The Angry Hive, 1705".

    € 17,95
  7. Genesis
    1. Marilynne Robinson

    Genesis

    In haar boek ‘Genesis’ geeft Pulitzerprijswinnaar Marilynne Robinson een betoverende interpretatie van het gelijknamige, eerste boek van de Bijbel. Het bijbelboek Genesis is niet alleen schitterende literatuur, maar bevat ook een rijkdom aan ideeën. Het biedt niet alleen schoonheid, maar ook hoop: de standvastigheid en welwillendheid van Gods blijvend geloof in de schepping. Kortom, een van de grootste romanschrijvers en denkers van deze tijd presenteert een onnavolgbare interpretatie van het boek Genesis. Dit boek spreekt niet alleen fans van Robinson aan, maar iedereen die meer wil weten over de Bijbel.

    € 24,99
  8. Must I Go
    1. Yiyun Li

    Must I Go

    This brilliant novel examines lives lived, losses accumulated, and the slipperiness of perception. Yiyun Li writes deeply, drolly, and with elegance about history, even as it's happening. She is one of my favorite writers, and Must I Go is an extraordinary book.

    € 13,95
  9. Gilead
    1. Marilynne Robinson

    Gilead

    De zesenzeventigjarige predikant John Ames krijgt in 1956 te horen dat hij niet lang meer te leven heeft. In deze sfeer van eindigheid besluit hij een brief te schrijven aan zijn zeven jaar oude zoon. Vanaf het platteland van Iowa vertelt hij hem over diens voorvaderen; over hoe het voelt een baby te dopen; over zijn liefde voor baseball en natuur. Gilead is een liefdesbrief aan een verloren Amerika, een roman vol wijsheid, rust, humor en warmte.

    € 24,99
  10. Hidden Lives
    1. Margaret Forster

    Hidden Lives

    A Family Memoir

    Margaret Forster's grandmother died in 1936, taking many secrets to her grave. Where had she spent the first 23 years of her life? Who was the woman in black who paid her a visit shortly before her death? The search for answers took Margaret on a journey into her family's past. This is a memoir on how women's lives have changed over the century.

    € 21,95
  11. Pragmatism and the Postsecular
    1. Tae Sung

    Pragmatism and the Postsecular

    The Gift in American Philosophy, Religion, and Literature

    A postsecular reading of the pragmatists Ralph Waldo Emerson and William James that contributes to a new interdisciplinary discourse about gift theories.

    € 117,95
  12. Activism and the Literary Self in 20th- and 21st-Century Literature
    1. Jeffrey F. Keuss

    Activism and the Literary Self in 20th- and 21st-Century Literature

    Poetics of Justice

    Jeffrey F. Keuss (PhD Glasgow, ALM Harvard) is Professor of Christian Ministry, Theology, and Culture at Seattle Pacific University, USA and on the editorial board of Literature and Theology.

    € 39,95