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Gilead
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$18.95 |
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05/01/2006 |
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Trade PB
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A hymn of praise and lamentation from a 1950s preacher man. A
testament to the sacred bonds between fathers and sons. A psalm of celebration
and acceptance of the best and the worst that the world has to offer. This is
the story of generations, as told through a family history written by Reverend
John Ames, a legacy for the young son he will never see grow up. As John records
the tale of the rift between his own father and grandfather, he also struggles
with the return to his small town of a friend’s prodigal son in search of
forgiveness and redemption.
The winner of two major literary awards and a New York Times Top
10 Book of 2004, Gilead is an exquisitely written work of literary
fiction, destined to become a classic, by one of today’s finest writers.
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Awards for Gilead |
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National Book Critics Circle
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National Book Critics Circle
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Pulitzer Prize
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Critical Praise for
Gilead
"Gilead is a beautiful work—demanding, grave and lucid.... Robinson’s words have a spiritual force that’s very rare in contemporary fiction."
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The New York Times Book Review
"Full of suspense and storytelling.... Gilead is a fearless novel."
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The Globe and Mail
"There is a ton of kindness in Gilead, some sadness and even more forgiveness.... Beautiful."
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Winnipeg Free Press
"Quietly powerful [and] moving."
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O, The Oprah Magazine (recommended reading)
"Robinson's prose is beautiful, shimmering and precise... Fans of Robinson's acclaimed debut Housekeeping will find that the long wait has been worth it...Destined to become her second classic."
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Publishers Weekly
"Robinson has composed, with its cascading perfection fo symbols, a novel as big as a nation, as quiet as thought, and moving as prayer. Matchless and towering."
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Kirkus (starred review)
"There is a lot of pleasure to be had in the novel's probing, thoughtful narrative voice."
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The Wall Street Journal
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Glory Boughton has returned to Gilead to care for her dying father. soon her brother, Jack—the prodigal son of the family, gone for twenty years—comes home too, looking for refuge and trying to make peace with a past littered with torment and pain. A troubled boy from childhood, an alcoholic who...
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In 1980, Marilynne Robinson drew the devotion of readers with her debut novel, Housekeeping , a book that won the PEN/Hemingway Award and has become a modern classic. In 2004, her second novel, Gilead , was published to critical acclaim and won both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the...
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Gilead
A NOVEL THAT READERS and critics have been eagerly anticipating for over a decade, Gilead is an astonishingly imagined story of remarkable lives. John Ames is a preacher, the son of a preacher and the grandson (both maternal and paternal) of preachers. It’s 1956 in Gilead, Iowa, towards the...
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