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Pages. 272. ISBN. 978-0-374-21361-9. Mother Country: Britain, the Welfare State, and Nuclear Pollution (1989) is a work of nonfiction by Marilynne Robinson that tells an alleged story of Sellafield, a government nuclear reprocessing plant located on the coast of the Irish Sea.
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1 apr 2011 · Mother Country: Britain, the Welfare State and Nuclear Pollution. Mother Country. : Marilynne Robinson. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Apr 1, 2011 - Science - 272 pages. At the...
1 dic 1999 · 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.
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Marilynne Summers. Born: November 26, 1943, Sandpoint, Idaho, U.S. (age 80) Awards And Honors: Pulitzer Prize (2005) Notable Works: “Gilead” “Home” “Housekeeping” “Lila” “Mother Country: Britain, the Welfare State, and Nuclear Pollution” “What Are We Doing Here?” (Show more)
Britain, the Welfare State and Nuclear Pollution. Author: Marilynne Robinson. Honors. Read Excerpt. About This Book. 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... Read More. Page Count.
Mother Country: Britain, the Welfare State and Nuclear Pollution. Finalist, National Book Awards 1989 for Nonfiction.
1 gen 1989 · Two stories, really: the first a retelling of the origins of the British welfare state, the second an exposé of Britain's Sellafield nuclear complex and its discharge of toxic and radioactive materials into the sea and air.
