What Are We Doing Here?: Essays (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780374282219)

New essays on theological, political, and contemporary themes, by the Pulitzer Prize winner

Marilynne Robinson has plumbed the human spirit in her renowned novels, including Lila, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Gilead, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. In this new essay collection she trains her incisive mind on our modern political climate and the mysteries of faith. Whether she is investigating how the work of great thinkers about America like Emerson and Tocqueville inform our political consciousness or discussing the way that beauty informs and disciplines daily life, Robinson's peerless prose and boundless humanity are on full display. What Are We Doing Here? is a call for Americans to continue the tradition of those great thinkers and to remake American political and cultural life as "deeply impressed by obligation and as] a great theater of heroic generosity, which, despite all, is sometimes palpable still."

Author: Marilynne Robinson
ISBN-10: 0374282218
ISBN-13: 9780374282219
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Language: English
Published: 02/20/2018
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.80w x 1.20d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 09/15/2017
Publishers Weekly 11/13/2017
Kirkus Reviews 12/01/2017
Booklist 01/01/2018 pg. 34
BookPage 03/01/2018
Shelf Awareness 03/23/2018

About the Author
Marilynne Robinson is the author of the novels Lila, Home, Gilead (winner of the Pulitzer Prize), and Housekeeping, and the nonfiction books The Givenness of Things, When I Was a Child I Read Books, Mother Country, The Death of Adam, and Absence of Mind. She lives in Iowa