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Gilead

An Oprah's Book Club Pick

by Marilynne Robinson

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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Pages:

288

Published:

2 Feb 2006

Format

Paperback

Publisher

Little, Brown Book Group Limited

Imprint

Virago Press

ISBN:

9781844081486

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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