Gilead

By Marilynne Robinson format: trade paperback publication: December 2005 ISBN: 0006393837

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Winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

Longlisted for the 2006 Orange Prize for Fiction

A hymn of praise and lamentation from a 1950s preacher man. Atestament to the sacred bonds between fathers and sons. A psalm of celebrationand acceptance of the best and the worst that the world has to offer. This isthe story of generations, as told through a family history written by ReverendJohn Ames, a legacy for the young son he will never see grow up. As John recordsthe tale of the rift between his own father and grandfather, he also struggleswith the return to his small town of a friend’s prodigal son in search offorgiveness and redemption.

The winner of two major literary awards and a New York Times Top10 Book of 2004, Gilead is an exquisitely written work of literaryfiction, destined to become a classic, by one of today’s finest writers.

MARILYNNE ROBINSON is the author of the modern classic Housekeeping,winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award, and two books of non-fiction, Mother Countryand The Death of Adam. She teaches at the University of Iowa Writers’Workshop.

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