The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought -- Marilynne Robinson, Paperback

In this award-winning collection, the bestselling author of Gilead offers us other ways of thinking about history, religion, and society. Whether rescuing "Calvinism" and its creator Jean Cauvin from the repressive "puritan" stereotype, or considering how the McGuffey readers were inspired by Midwestern abolitionists, or the divide between the Bible and Darwinism, Marilynne Robinson repeatedly sends her reader back to the primary texts that are central to the development of American culture but little read or acknowledged today.

A passionate and provocative celebration of ideas, the old arts of civilization, and life's mystery, The Death of Adam is, in the words of Robert D. Richardson, Jr., "a grand, sweeping, blazing, brilliant, life-changing book."

Author: Marilynne Robinson
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: 11/01/2005
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.54lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.90w x 0.71d
ISBN: 9780312425326

Review Citation(s):
Ingram Advance 11/01/2005 pg. 84

About the Author

Marilynne Robinson is the author of the modern classic Housekeeping--winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award--and two books of nonfiction, Mother Country (FSG, 1989) and The Death of Adam. She teaches at the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop.