Book :: Gilead
| By: | Marilynne Robinson |
| Pages: | 247 |
| Published: | 2004 |
| Genre(s): | Historical Fiction |
| Religion | |
| Literary Fiction | |
| Award(s): | National Book Critics Circle Award (2004) |
| Pulitzer Prize (2005) | |
| Rating: | (3) |
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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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I know this is a great work but it's not my favorite--I just did not like the Reverend....
Jan 5th, 2018
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