Gilead:A Novel: by Marilynne Robinson

Author: Marilynne Robinson

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2005 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Fiction
2004 National Book Critics Circle Winner

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. Ames is the son of an Iowan preacher and the grandson of a minister who, as a young man in Maine, saw a vision of Christ bound in chains and came west to Kansas to fight for abolition: He "preached men into the Civil War," then, at age fifty, became a chaplain in the Union Army, losing his right eye in battle. Reverend Ames writes to his son about the tension between his father--an ardent pacifist--and his grandfather, whose pistol and bloody shirts, concealed in an army blanket, may be relics from the fight between the abolitionists and those settlers who wanted to vote Kansas into the union as a slave state. And he tells a story of the sacred bonds between fathers and sons, which are tested in his tender and strained relationship with his namesake, John Ames Boughton, his best friend's wayward son.

This is also the tale of another remarkable vision--not a corporeal vision of God but the vision of life as a wondrously strange creation. It tells how wisdom was forged in Ames's soul during his solitary life, and how history lives through generations, pervasively present even when betrayed and forgotten.

Gilead is the long-hoped-for second novel by one of our finest writers, a hymn of praise and lamentation to the God-haunted existence that Reverend Ames loves passionately, and from which he will soon part.

Physical Info: 0.9" H x 8.54" L x 5.84" W (0.86 lbs) 247 pages
Carton Quantity: 44
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
US SRP: $ 23.00 US
Binding: Hardcover
Pub Date: November 2004

Marilynne Robinson is the author of the modern classic Housekeeping (FSG, 1981)--winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award--and two books of nonfiction, Mother Country (FSG, 1989) and The Death of Adam. She teaches at the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop.

Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | General
LC Subjects:
- Children of clergy - Clergy
- Conflict of generations - Fathers and sons
- Grandfathers - Reminiscing in old age
Themes:
Chronological Period | 1950's
Topical | Family
Cultural Region | Heartland
Geographic Orientation | Iowa
Sex & Gender | Masculine
Cultural Region | Upper Midwest
Awards: Book Sense Book of the Year Award | Nominee | Adult Fiction | 2005 ; National Book Critics Circle Award | Winner | Fiction | 2004 ; Pulitzer Prize | Winner | Fiction | 2005 ; PEN/Faulkner Award | Nominee | Fiction | 2005 ; Christianity Today Book Award | Winner | Fiction | 2005 ; Society of Midland Authors Award | Winner | Adult Fiction | 2005 ; L.A. Times Book Prize | Finalist | Fiction | 2004 ; Ambassador Book Awards | Winner | Fiction | 2005 ; ALA Notable Books | Winner | Fiction | 2006 ; Midwest Booksellers Choice Award | Winner | Fiction | 2005

Gilead:A Novel: by Marilynne Robinson Author: Marilynne Robinson
	Item#	Binding	isbn - 10	Price
	9780374153892	Hardcover	0374153892	15.95
In 1956, toward the end of Rev. John Ames's life, he begins a letter to his young son, an account of himself and his forebears. This is also the tale of wisdom forged during his solitary life and how history lives through generations, ...

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