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Gilead
I have spent a lot of time over the past few years reading romance novels, old Stephen King stories, and all manner of other stuff that wouldn't have fit in with a college English literature class syllabus. Sometimes I branch out into books about politics, but a lot of the time even that is on the... Read full review »
Full Circle-From Civil War to Civil Rights
Reverend Ames, our narrator, was born in 1880;his grandfather served in the Civil War; his father, being more of a pacifist,and theirs has been a love/hate relationship.
But, when young John is just a child, his parents move to Gilead...a city with a biblical meaning of peace and refuge,...
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The Balm of Gilead
If you're looking for a change from fast-paced thrillers and weakly written "beach reads", then you should pick up a copy of Marilynne Robinson's "Gilead". Winner of the prestigious Pulitzer award in 2005, this novel is well-deserving of recognition. Published over a decade after this author's most... Read full review »
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Gilead - Marilynne Robinson - 9780312424404 - 031242440X
ISBN13: 9780312424404. ISBN10: 031242440X. by Marilynne Robinson. Published by MacMillan Higher Education. Edition: 04
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Gilead: A Novel
Gilead is, in every sense, a sacred story and a revelation. Robinson has written one of the most skillful, tightly constructed, deeply felt novels in many years, as much a classic as Georges Bernanos' fictional Diary. Her writing warms up when she has characters to love,---Christian Century. 256 pages, softcover. Picador.
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Gilead
In 1956, toward the end of Reverend John Ames's life, he begins a letter to his young son, an account of himself and his forebears....
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| Authors | Marilynne Robinson | |
| Fiction Genre | Biography & Autobiography • Family & Relationships | |
| Narrator | Tim Jerome | |
| Awards | 2005 Pulitzer Prize | |
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| Wood, James, New York Times Book Review: "GILEAD is a beautiful work--demanding, grave and lucid....Gradually, Robinson's novel teaches us how to read it, suggests how we might slow down to walk at its own processional pace, and how we might learn to coddle its many fine details. Nowadays, when so many writers are acclaimed as great stylists, it's hard to make anyone notice when you praise a writer's prose. There is, however, something remarkable about the writing in GILEAD. It's not just a matter of writing well, although Robinson demonstrates that talent on every page....Robinson's words have a spiritual force that's very rare in contemporary fiction...." | ||
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| I told you last night that I might be gone sometime, and you said, Where,and I said, To be with the Good Lord, and you said, Why, and I said, Because I'm old, and you said, I don't think you're old. | ||
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