"Robison uses a minimalist discipline and barely ruffled surfaces, but her hidden pictures of childhood and other states of vulnerability are boundless in their emotion." —The Los Angeles Times Book R
Robison (Agriculture, Food, and Resource Economics, Michigan State University) and Ritchie (international relations, Michigan State University) use the Social Capital Paradigm to explain why social re
"Robison is both wise and entertaining, a technician with a sense of humor, a minimalist with a good eye for what can be salvaged from lives of quiet desperation." —The New York Times Book ReviewConti
In this funny, grouchy, wryly tender novel—first published in 1991—Mary Robison gives us a portrait of a marriage in very rough shape careening toward the breaking point, and of two magnetic and carel
"Robison has a poet's eye for the unconscious surrealism of commercial America." —The New York Times Book ReviewTell Me reflects the early brilliance as well as the fulfilled promise of Mary Robison's
"At first, Oh! seems a satire, a sitcom stripped of its sentiment and foolishness. But it is far more. Mary Robison is trying to show us how the the incredibly complicated dance of family life works."
John Robison (1739-1805) was a Scottish scientist, who late in life wrote the one of the definitive studies of the Bavarian Illuminati. He was a contemporary and collaborator with James Watt, with who
In this brilliant novel, Pulitzer Prize-winning and bestselling author Jane Smiley delves into the domestic drama of the Robison family. While seventy-seven-year-old Ike Robison is dying in his bedro
