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Mother Country, Paperback by Robinson, Marilynne
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Ubicado en: Syracuse, New York, Estados Unidos
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN-10
0374526591
ISBN-13
9780374526597
eBay Product ID (ePID)
151506
Product Key Features
Edition
1
Book Title
Mother Country : Britain, the Welfare State and Nuclear Pollution
Number of Pages
261 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Environmental Science (See Also Chemistry / Environmental)
Publication Year
1999
Genre
Science
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
11.6 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.5 in
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Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
88-033523
Synopsis
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., In this powerful, eloquent, and elucidating essay, Marilynne Robinson has pinpointed exactly the motives and the mythology and the reality behind the destruction of our planet. The Sellafield nuclear reprocessing plant in Great Britain is a perfect metaphor for twentieth-century genocide. Not the small, insane eruptions of eradication that took place in Hitler's Germany, but rather that routine, day-to-day, thoroughly "democratic" envenomation of the planet by a current industrial magic (encouraged, or at least condoned, by almost everybody), which threatens to terminate everything on earth in the quite foreseeable future. Robinson's book is as powerful a contribution to the literature of revelation and protest as was that seminal photographic essay by W. Eugene and Aileen Smith on Minamata's disease fifteen years ago. It is as bloodcurdling as Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, as thought-provoking and prophetic as the best works of people like Barry Commoner and Loren Eiseley. This is a work of great intelligence and fine investigative reporting. It is also a lucid interpretation of history, and very important in its discussions of the roots of current dilemmas. And lastly, Mother Country is courageous, and marvelous literature at its best.
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