Mother Country: Britain, the Welfare State, and Nuclear Pollution

Mother Country: Britain, the Welfare State, and Nuclear Pollution
First edition
Author Marilynne Robinson
Country United States
Language English
Genre Nonfiction
Publisher FSG
Publication date
 1989
Media type Print (hardback & paperback)
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 the story of Sellafield, a government nuclear reprocessing plant located on the coast of the Irish Sea. The book shows how the closest village to Sellafield suffers from death and disease due to decades of waste and radiation from the plant. Mother Country was a National Book Award finalist for Nonfiction in 1989. While on sabbatical in England, Robinson's interest in the environmental ramifications of the plant began when she discovered a newspaper article detailing its hazards.[1][2]

References

  1. ↑ "MOTHER COUNTRY by Marilynne Robinson | Kirkus". kirkusreviews.com. Retrieved 2014-06-02.
  2. ↑ Shannon L. Mariotti, Joseph H. Lane Jr. A Political Companion to Marilynne Robinson 0813167787- 2016 - This assumption pervades her first major nonfiction work —Mother Country. That work, which Robinson herself has identified as her most important book, is a polemic against the pollution of northwest England and western Scotland by the ...


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