# When I Was A Child I Read Books

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- Authors: [Marilynne Robinson](https://www.bookquiver.com/marilynne-robinson)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2012-03-22

## Description

From the author of the magnificent, award-winning novels GILEAD, HOME and LILA comes this wonderful, heart-warming collection of essays about reading. 'Grace and intelligence ...[her work] defines universal truths about what it means to be human' Barack Obama Marilynne Robinson is not only a writer of sharp, subtly moving fiction, but also a rigorous thinker and incisive essayist. In this luminous collection she returns to the themes which have preoccupied her bestselling novels: the place literature has in life, the role of faith in modern living, the contradictions inherent in human nature. Clear-eyed and forceful as ever, Robinson demonstrates once again why she is regarded as one of our best-loved writers.

## Editions

### When I Was A Child I Read Books

- Publisher: virago
- ISBN: 978-18-4408-772-3
- Published: 2013-06-06
- Language: en_GB

### When I Was A Child I Read Books

- Publisher: virago
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-07-4812-936-2
- Published: 2012-03-22
- Language: en_GB