Robinson, Marilynne

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

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