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Mother Country

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Title
Title: Mother Country
Author: Marilynne Robinson
ISBN: 0374213615
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 1989
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Edition: First Edition
Number of Pages: 272
Condition Note: Clean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher Description: 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.