| Title | : | Mother Country |
|---|---|---|
| Author | : | Marilynne Robinson |
| Release | : | 2011-04-01 |
| Kind | : | ebook |
| Genre | : | Environment, Books, Science & Nature |
| Size | : | 643345 |
| 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. |
