- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2005 · Winner
Gilead
Gilead
Marilynne Robinson (born 1943)
English editions
Written in EnglishGilead
Virago · United Kingdom · 6 August 2020 · Paperback
Gilead
Farrar, Straus and Giroux · United States · November 2004
Gilead
Virago · United Kingdom · 2005 · 282 pages
Gilead
Picador · United States · 10 January 2006 · Paperback · 256 pages
Gilead
Picador · United States · 4 August 2020 · Paperback · 256 pages
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Reverend John Ames is seventy-seven, his heart is failing, and he has a wife many years his junior and a boy of six. In 1956 he starts writing a letter for the boy to read once he is a man, about a life spent preaching in a small prairie town in Iowa. He writes of how he lost an earlier wife and their baby and of the long years alone; of his grandfather, a visionary who fought for abolition in Kansas and lost an eye as a Union chaplain; and of his father, a pacifist at odds with the old man. As he writes, his namesake John Ames Boughton, the wayward son of his oldest friend, comes back to town, and Ames must wrestle with long-held resentment and the question of forgiveness.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Genres
- Family (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- United States, 1956
- First published
- 2004 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Author's age
- 61 when first published
- ISBN
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9780374153892 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, United States)
9781844081479 (Virago, United Kingdom)
9780312424404 (Picador, United States)
9781250784018 (Picador, United States)
9781844081486 (Virago, United Kingdom)
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