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 | Robinson, Marilynne | Gilead takes its name from a fictional Iowa town, the setting of several novels by Marilynne Robinson. In Gilead, Robinson writes in the voice of the aging Reverend John Ames, exploring the beauty, mystery, and pain of existence through a lyrical, meditative letter Ames writes to his young son. This… | Literature ⋅ Contemporary Literature | |
 | Robinson, Marilynne | One of America's most acclaimed living authors, Marilynne Robinson, revisits the characters from her Pulitzer Prize–winning Gilead, in this "impossibly rich and beautiful new novel" (San Francisco Chronicle)
Glory Boughton, aged thirty-eight, has returned to Gilead to care for her dying father, Reverend Robert Boughton. Soon her brother, Jack—the prodigal son of… | Literature ⋅ Contemporary Literature |