Gilead (Paperback)
$23.00 - Free shipping worldwide (to United States and
all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Gilead From the author of Housekeeping, Gilead is the long-hoped-for second novel by one of America's finest writers. Chosen by the New York Times Book Review as one of the top 6 novels of 2004. 'A beautiful novel: wise, tender and perfectly measured ' Sarah Waters
Full description- Publisher: Virago Press Ltd
- Published: 03 February 2006
- Format: Paperback 368 pages
- See: Full bibliographic data
- Categories: Contemporary Fiction
- ISBN 13: 9781844083367 ISBN 10: 1844083365
- Sales rank: 393,441
Other books
Full description for Gilead
In 1956, toward the end of Reverend John Ames's life, he begins a letter to his young son, a kind of last testament to his remarkable forebears. 'It is a book of such meditative calm, such spiritual intensity that is seems miraculous that her silence was only for 23 years; such measure of wisdom is the fruit of a lifetime. Robinson's prose, aligned with the sublime simplicity of the language of the bible, is nothing short of a benediction. You might not share its faith, but it is difficult not to be awed moved and ultimately humbled by the spiritual effulgence that lights up the novel from within' Neel Mukherjee, The Times '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 - that at any moment, it might all go wrong. In Gilead, however, nothing goes wrong' Jane Shilling, Sunday Telegraph
