Gilead: A Novel
October 6th, 2005 | I finally got my hands on Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead. I’ve been itching to read the 2005 Pulitzer Prize winner for some time now, but I haven’t had the money to buy it. A couple of days ago, the one copy that the Luther library has was returned and subsequently checked out by me. I am only about a third of the way through at this point, but it is already a beautiful read.
Gilead is the story of John Ames, a pastor in Gilead, Iowa whose father and grandfather were also pastors before him. At 76 years of age, Ames is slowly dying and decides to write a series of letters to his then seven-year-old son of things he wishes to share with him but will not be around to when the boy is grown up.
The book has received universal critical acclaim, and if you’re interested, you can read some reviews here (my personal favorite), here, and here.
If I’m up to it, I’ll post my own review when I finish the novel sometime in the near future.
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[...] To do so, I shall enlist the help of Marilynne Robinson, the Pulitzer Prize winning author of Gilead. Robinson recently wrote a review of The God Delusion for the November edition of Harper’s entitled Hysterical Scientism: The ecstasy of Richard Dawkins. Although Harper’s doesn’t have any articles online, a full transcript is available here. I encourage you to read the article in full, but I will be quoting it much in this post. [...]
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Wait…so when he was 69 years old he had a newborn son? I must have read that wrong, otherwise that’s rediculous. He must be doing something right.