Gilead
An Oprah's Book Club Pick
$24.31
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
16 February 2006
Summary
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION and THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD
AN OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK
In 1956, towards the end of Reverend John Ames’s life, he begins a letter to his young son: ‘I told you last night that I might be gone sometime… You reached up and put your fingers on my lips and gave me that look I never in my life saw on any other face besides your mother’s. It’s a kind of furious pride, very passionate and stern. I…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781844081486 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1844081486 |
| Author: | Marilynne Robinson |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 16 February 2006 |
| Weight: | 230g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 127mm x 20mm |
| Series: | Virago Press |
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Critics Review
‘Gilead is a beautiful work - demanding, grave and lucid…Robinson s words have a spiritual force that s very rare in contemporary fiction - James Wood, New York Times Book Review
The wait since 1981 and Housekeeping is over. Robinson returns with a second novel that, however quiet in tone and however delicate of step, will do no less than tell the story of America - and break your heart - Kirkus ReviewRobinson’s prose is beautiful, shimmering and precise…Robinson truly succeeds in what is destined to become her second classic - Publishers WeeklyA psalm worthy of study, a sermon of the loveliest profundity… A literary miracle - Entertainment WeeklySerenely beautiful…one feels touched with grace just to read it - Washington PostAbout The Author
Marilynne Robinson
Marilynne Robinson is the author of Gilead, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award; Home, winner of the Orange Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; Lila, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award; and Jack, a New York Times bestseller. Her first novel, Housekeeping, won the PEN/Hemingway Award. Robinson’s non-fiction books include The Givenness of Things, When I Was a Child I Read Books, Absence of Mind, The Death of Adam, and Mother Country. She is the recipient of a 2012 National Humanities Medal, awarded by President Barack Obama, for ‘her grace and intelligence in writing.’ Robinson lives in Iowa City, Iowa.
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