{"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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50491696742674,"sku":"9780374526597","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_7fb4a498-d2d6-477e-88e6-8c251d84fe6d.jpg?v=1730550282","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/mother-country-britain-the-welfare-state-and-nuclear-pollution-9780374526597","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}