He’s bathed in grace, and when he takes his sister and father for a ride in the countryside, the drab Iowa fields have become an Eden, bright and fertile: “The terraced hills glittered with new corn .

The book contains as an appendix the entire text of Genesis in the Revised Standard Version. My one serious query was whether Robinson might usefully have chosen another version – either the King ...

Of the Flood, she writes: “Turbulence is introduced into the Genesis Creation by human beings ... How should we interpret the bible? How is the language meaningful? If it speaks of the Fall ...