Gilead
/ Marilynne Robinson
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux , c2004.
- 247 p. ; 22 cm.
In 1956, toward the end of Rev. John Ames's life, he begins a letter to his young son, an account of himself and his forebears. This is also the tale of wisdom forged during his solitary life and how history lives through generations, pervasively present even when betrayed and forgotten.
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Conflict of generations----Fiction Children of clergy----Fiction Fathers and sons----Fiction Grandfathers----Fiction Clergy----Fiction
Kansas----Fiction
Domestic fiction Christian fiction Epistolary fiction