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Mother Country: Britain, the Welfare State and Nuclear Pollution Paperback – December 1, 1999

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At the time when Robinson wrote this book, the largest known source of radioactive contamination of the world's environment was a government-owned nuclear plant called Sellafield, not far from Wordsworth's cottage in the Lakes District; one child in sixty was dying from leukemia in the village closest to the plant. The central question of this eloquently impassioned book is: How can a country that we persist in calling a welfare state consciously risk the lives of its people for profit.

Mother Country is a 1989 National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction.

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Marilynne Robinson is the recipient of a 2012 National Humanities Medal, awarded by President Barack Obama, for "her grace and intelligence in writing." She is the author of Gilead, winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award; Home, winner of the Orange Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; and Lila, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her first novel, Housekeeping, won the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. Robinson's nonfiction books include The Givenness of Things, When I Was a Child I Read Books, Absence of Mind, The Death of Adam, and Mother Country. She lives in Iowa City, Iowa.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0374526591
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Farrar, Straus and Giroux (December 1, 1999)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 261 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780374526597
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0374526597
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 11.2 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.61 x 8.5 inches

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Marilynne Robinson is the author of the bestselling novels "Lila," "Home" (winner of the Orange Prize), "Gilead" (winner of the Pulitzer Prize), and "Housekeeping" (winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award).

She has also written four books of nonfiction, "When I Was a Child I Read Books," "Absence of Mind," "Mother Country" and "The Death of Adam." She teaches at the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop.

She has been given honorary degrees from Brown University, the University of the South, Holy Cross, Notre Dame, Amherst, Skidmore, and Oxford University. She was also elected a fellow of Mansfield College, Oxford University.

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M. Kane

England Ruled by the Merciless

Reviewed in the United States on December 22, 2012

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What happens when an aristocracy and oligarchy care not a whit for common people? Nuclear waste dumped in the North Sea and more.

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I love her writing

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I thought this book was based on a false premise about the nature of British governance in which there is apparently a total disregard for ordinary folk and their opinions. Coming from an American this is a bit much. While I agree with her about the perils of reprocessing nuclear waste, it is isn’t military waste but mainly from nuclear power plants designed by US companies. So, I think that the author seems to have had a hard time when living in England. A little more honesty about that and knowledge about the nuclear power industry and its American sponsors would have made for a much better book.

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J. Stewart

she still sees this as her favourite. It is just shocking and has just put ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 24, 2017

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The author states in interviews this is her most important book to date (2017). It is shocking. As a past Conservative and Thatcherite, I see so clearly the wickedness of capitalism when those at the top weald the axe or bury their heads. Sellafield was inspected annually by my GP Dr RR. I recall him going. But Robinson goes around Seĺlafield and the leakage and shocking ecological threat to local folk and beyond. From The University of Kent, where I started my degree, where she began this masterpiece of academic research, she took it back to Omaha or Idaho and despite her Gilead, Home and Lila to come, she still sees this as her favourite. It is just shocking and has just put another nail into the coffin of modern day consumerism and greed for me, which I pray will ultimately be ready for change for all not the few. We need The Rev. John Ames from Gilead to review this not me. Ames...ironically or not, is President Obama's favourite fictitious character. READ THIS BOOK. CRITICAL READING FOR ALL WHOM REALLY CARE. John Stewart. London. UK.

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Don't bother

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 9, 2015

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Useless. Poor references, mostly opinions

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