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Also by Marilynne Robinson:

Jack, September 2020
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Lila, October 2014
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Absence Of Mind, June 2010
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Home: A Novel, September 2008
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Gilead, January 2006
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Gilead, November 2004
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Housekeeping, November 2004
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GILEAD
By: Marilynne Robinson

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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