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Gilead
Category: Books > Narrative > Narrative
Author/Artist: MARILYNNE ROBINSON
ISBN / ID: 9781844081486
Publisher: Viragp
Binding: PAPERBACK
Price: AU$22.99
  
Description: In 1956, towards the end of Reverend John Ames's life, he begins a letter to his young son: 'I told you last night that I might be gone sometime... You reached up and put your fingers on my lips and gave me that look I never in my life saw on any other face besides your mother's. It's a kind of furious pride, very passionate and stern. I'm always a little surprised to find my eyebrows unsinged after I've suffered one of those looks. I will miss them.'

What makes Gilead appealing to a wide readership is its meditative theology of the everyday and its sacred rendering of flawed personal history, textures of experience that many people of faith will recognise.

'Writing of this quality, with an authority as unforced as the perfect pitch in music, is rare and carries with it a sense almost of danger.'
JANE SHILLING, DAILY TELEGRAPH

'A beautiful novel: wise, tender and perfectly measured.' SARAH WATERS
 
 
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