Gilead / Marilynne Robinson.

By:

Robinson, Marilynne

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TextPublication details: London : Virago, 2005.Description: 282 p. ; 20 cmContent type:

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9781844081486

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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award.

Summary: In 1956, toward the end of Reverend John Ames's life, he begins a letter to his young son, a kind of last testament to his remarkable forebears. Ames is troubled too by his prodigal namesake, Jack Boughton, his best friend's ne'er-do-well son, who seems to be a living contradiction of everything that Ames stands for.

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In 1956, toward the end of Reverend John Ames's life, he begins a letter to his young son, a kind of last testament to his remarkable forebears. Ames is troubled too by his prodigal namesake, Jack Boughton, his best friend's ne'er-do-well son, who seems to be a living contradiction of everything that Ames stands for.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award.

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