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Gilead: An Oprah's Book Club Pick
Marilynne Robinson
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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION and THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD
AN OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK
In 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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Praise for Gilead: An Oprah's Book Club Pick
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'Gilead is a beautiful work - demanding, grave and lucid...Robinson s words have a spiritual force that s very rare in contemporary fiction - James Wood, New York Times Book ReviewThe wait since 1981 and Housekeeping is over. Robinson returns with a second novel that, however quiet in tone and however delicate of step, will do no less than tell the story of America - and break your heart - Kirkus ReviewRobinson's prose is beautiful, shimmering and precise...Robinson truly succeeds in what is destined to become her second classic - Publishers WeeklyA psalm worthy of study, a sermon of the loveliest profundity... A literary miracle - Entertainment WeeklySerenely beautiful...one feels touched with grace just to read it - Washington Post
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