![]() ![]() ![]() Housekeeping and the Pulitzer-Prize-winning Those who are familiar with her previous books, including the classic novel When I Was a Child I Read Books is Robinson's seventh book, her fourth of non-fiction. She, who is so marvellously eloquent, is suspicious of her own opinions and language, and fights to retain space for all that is mysterious, immense or unnamed. ![]() When I Was a Child I Read Books, Marilynne Robinson calls this kind of exploration "an archeology of own thinking," and the metaphor is characteristically just: Hers is a careful, measured, patient excavation that acknowledges – even glories in – the dirt and obscurity that attends the act of digging up something meaningful. The very best essays, though their sentences are burnished bright, retain a hint of the fight to write them, an urgency that arises from the struggle against the writer's own limits and assumptions. A reader comes to a collection of essays to explore the contours of its creator's mind. ![]()
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