MARILYNNE ROBINSON—Givenness of Things—1st Ed HARDCOVER—"Magnificent"

Description: • For Your Consideration: • A First-Edition HARDCOVER of: • “THE GIVENNESS OF THINGS: ESSAYS” (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015) (First Edition, Hardcover) • BY MARILYNNE ROBINSON, Winner of the PULITZER PRIZE & Two NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS • “She really is not like any other writer. She really isn’t….”―CATHLEEN SCHINE, NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS • “MARILYNNE ROBINSON is a miraculous anomaly: a writer who thoughtfully, carefully and tenaciously explores some of the deepest questions confronting the human species….” —MERLE RUBIN, LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK REVIEW • “A writer of unique vision.”—NICHOLAS CANNARIATO, LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS • “In all her work, we have the writer as magician.” —LINDA McCULLOUGH MOORE, CHRISTIANITY TODAY • “A sense of wonder pervades the powerful essays in THE GIVENNESS OF THINGS…. ROBINSON’s heroic lamentation is magnificent….” ―KAREN ARMSTRONG, NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW • “These are beautiful essays…beautiful in thought and beautiful in expression.” ―BILL MARVEL, DALLAS MORNING NEWS • “Over the course of 17 provocative essays, ROBINSON, a ‘self-declared Calvinist from northern Idaho,’ brings both her formidable intellect and powers of plain speaking to deliver a clarion call against the culture of fear that she believes is eating away at American society.” ―YVONNE ZIPP, CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR • “MARILYNNE ROBINSON displays the same passionate concern with matters of faith that suffuses her majestic trilogy of linked novels.” ―WENDY SMITH, BOSTON GLOBE • “ROBINSON’s handiwork is capacious and serious, but also mysterious and wondrous; like the night sky, it deserves our attention.” ―CASEY N. CEP, THE NEW REPUBLIC • “A new book of essays by ROBINSON is a major American literary event.” ―JEFF SIMON, BUFFALO NEWS • “The beauty of ROBINSON’s prose suggests an author continually threading with spun platinum the world's finest needle.” ―MICHELLE ORANGE, BOOKFORUM • “These bravely and brilliantly argued, gorgeously composed, slyly witty, profoundly caring essays lead us into the richest dimensions of consciousness and conscience, theology and mystery, responsibility and reverence.” ―DONNA SEAMAN, BOOKLIST • “The prose is as finely wrought as in any of ROBINSON’s novels…any reader not tone-deaf will be enchanted by her grave, urgent music.” ―GEORGE SCIALABBA, BOOKFORUM • “Eloquent, persuasive, and rigorously clear, this collection reveals one of America's finest minds working at peak form….” ―PUBLISHERS WEEKLY • “Learned, probing essays...ROBINSON’s gorgeous, demanding, and enlightening essays, propelled by her intricate vision of unity, radiantly recharge both mind and soul.” ―BOOKLIST • “Like [MELVILLE and DICKINSON and the other Transcendentalists], [ROBINSON] is an ardent armchair naturalist, not to mention an ardent armchair theologian, cosmologist, ethicist, historian. Like them, she sees, or creates through metaphor, correspondences across disparate fields, frames of reference, states of being…. She has become a kind of prophet and exegete of American democracy, as devoted to our secular scriptures as to her Christian ones.”—DONOVAN HAHN, NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW • “A dense, eccentric book of profound and generous gifts.” ―PARUL SEGHAL, NEW YORK TIMES • “This, her sixth nonfiction book, continues in the voraciously intelligent and meditatively faithful vein of [her] previous essay collections….”—KATHLEEN ROONEY, CHICAGO TRIBUNE • “These persuasive essays engage with America’s political malaise with intelligence and much-needed historical insight.”—HOUMAN BAREKAT, IRISH TIMES • “ROBINSON’s determination to shed light on…complexities—the solitude that endures inside intimacy, the sorrow that persists beside joy—marks her as one of those rare writers genuinely committed to contradiction as an abiding state of consciousness.”—LESLIE JAMISON, THE ATLANTIC • • For other details about this book, please see below. • TITLE: “THE GIVENNESS OF THINGS: Essays” AUTHOR: MARILYNNE ROBINSON TYPE: HARDCOVERPAGES: 292PUBLISHER, LOCALE, & YEAR: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (New York), 2015EDITION: First Edition, First Printing* *RE: On the Copyright page, the statement “First Edition, 2015” & this Number Row: “1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2.” NOTE: This copy is NOT ex-library NOR a book-club edition. 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