Gilead
ISBN:031242440X
ISBN13:9780312424404
Publisher:Picador
Author:Marilynne Robinson
Gilead Description
Gilead 0 Edition 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.Gilead is the winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.