TY  - BOOK
AU  - Robinson,Marilynne
TI  - Gilead
SN  - 9781844081486
U1  - 813 
PY  - 2005///
CY  - London
PB  - Virago
KW  - Conflict of generations
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Reminiscing in old age
KW  - Children of clergy
KW  - Fathers and sons
KW  - Grandfathers
KW  - Clergy
N2  - 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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