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GILEAD
Publisher:
VIRAGO
| Author:
Robinson, Marilynne
| Language:
English
| Format:
Paperback
Publisher:
VIRAGO
Author:
Robinson, Marilynne
Language:
English
Format:
Paperback
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9781844081486
Category Fiction
Category: Fiction
Page Extent:
288
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION and THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDAN OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICKIn 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.”A visionary work of dazzling originality’ ROBERT MCCRUM, OBSERVER’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’A masterpiece’ SUNDAY TIMES
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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION and THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDAN OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICKIn 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.”A visionary work of dazzling originality’ ROBERT MCCRUM, OBSERVER’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’A masterpiece’ SUNDAY TIMES
About Author
Marilynne Robinson, author of Housekeeping, Gilead, Home, Lila and Jack, is the winner of the Hemingway PEN award, the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Women's Prize for Fiction and has twice been nominated for the International Booker Prize. She has also published six volumes of essays. In 2012 she was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Obama and in 2016 she was given The Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction and was one of Time magazine's list of 100 most influential people. She lives in Iowa.
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