
Gilead
1,983
Total Points
#293
- Pages
- 247
- Award(s)
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National Book Critics Circle Award (2004)
Pulitzer Prize (2005)
In 1956, toward the end of Reverend John Ames's life, he begins a letter to his young son, a kind of last testament to his remarkable forebears. 'It is a book of such meditative calm, such spiritual intensity that is seems miraculous that her silence was only for 23 years; such measure of wisdom is the fruit of a lifetime. Robinson's prose, aligned with the sublime simplicity of the language of...
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