About the Book

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."

Product Details

Media: Paperback Book, 263 pages

Language: English

Publisher: Picador USA (Nov. 30th, 2005)

ISBN-10: 0312425325

ISBN-13: 9780312425326

Dimensions: 5.90 x 8.10 x 0.71 inches

Shipping Weight: 0.54 lbs

• Categories: Literary Collections Essays 20th Century United States History