Gilead - Proust

247 pages

English language

Published 2004 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

ISBN:: 978-0-374-15389-2
OCLC Number:: 54881929

(1 review)

As the Reverend John Ames approaches the hour of his own death, he writes a letter to his son chronicling three previous generations of his family, a story that stretches back to the Civil War and reveals uncomfortable family secrets.

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rulapeep reviewed Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

Review of 'Gilead' on 'Storygraph'

4 stars

really quite beautiful - I think I would have got more out of it if I was christian / had been raised christian as it so relies on some kind of preoccupation with christianity - that being said the prose made it worth reading just to experience and be enveloped

Subjects

Conflict of generations -- Fiction.
Reminiscing in old age -- Fiction.
Children of clergy -- Fiction.
Fathers and sons -- Fiction.
Grandfathers -- Fiction.
Clergy -- Fiction.
Kansas -- Fiction.