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Picador
January 2006
On Sale: January 10, 2006
247 pages ISBN: 031242440X EAN: 9780312424404 Paperback
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Twenty-four years after her first novel, Housekeeping,
Marilynne Robinson returns with an intimate tale of three
generations from the Civil War to the twentieth century: a
story about fathers and sons and the spiritual battles that
still rage at America's heart. Writing in the tradition of
Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman, Marilynne Robinson's
beautiful, spare, and spiritual prose allows "even the
faithless reader to feel the possibility of transcendent
order" (Slate). In the luminous and unforgettable voice of
Congregationalist minister John Ames, Gilead reveals the
human condition and the often unbearable beauty of an
ordinary life.
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