Mother Country: Britain, the Welfare State and Nuclear Pollution

Finalist, National Book Awards 1989 for Nonfiction

cover of Mother Country by Marilynne Robinson

Marilynne Robinson

Marilynne Robinson is the author of the novels Home, which was a Finalist for the National Book Award, Gilead, which won the Pulitzer Prize, and Housekeeping, which was also a Finalist for the National Book Award, and four books of nonfiction, When I Was a Child I Read Books, Mother Country, The Death of Adam, and Absence of Mind. She teaches at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. More about this author >

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