{"product_id":"mother-country-britain-the-welfare-state-and-nuclear-pollution-9780374526597","title":"Mother Country: Britain, the Welfare State and Nuclear Pollution","description":"\u003cp\u003eAt 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eMother Country\u003c\/i\u003e is a 1989 National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Marilynne Robinson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Farrar, Straus and Giroux\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/01\/1999\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 261\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780374526597\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarilynne Robinson\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eGilead\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and \u003ci\u003eHome\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Orange Prize, the L.A. Times Book Prize, and a finalist for the National Book Award. Her first novel, \u003ci\u003eHousekeeping\u003c\/i\u003e, won the PEN\/Hemingway Award. Robinson is also the author of the nonfiction books \u003ci\u003eAbsence of Mind\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Death of Adam\u003c\/i\u003e. She teaches at the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop and lives in Iowa City.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45361818239091,"sku":"9780374526597","price":26.04,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_46d05c54-3ce3-4194-902a-4b5335febce0.jpg?v=1786735279","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/mother-country-britain-the-welfare-state-and-nuclear-pollution-9780374526597","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}