Gilead: A Novel | Marilynne Robinson | This is a nearly perfect book

Gilead: A Novel | Marilynne Robinson | A Beautiful Novel, Well Worth Your Time

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Gilead: A Novel

	Gilead: A Novel Marilynne Robinson, 2004 - 256 pages average customer review:based on 310 reviews view larger image
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This is a nearly perfect book

Gilead is a nearly perfect book.

It is quiet, multi-layered, and deeply spiritual. Composed in the form of a letter from the elderly protagonist, John Ames, to his young son, the work is a meditative near-monologue about faith, anger, love, and forgiveness; emotional patrimony, isolation, and loneliness. Absent characters loom large, and vast haunted landscapes are communicated in just the barest of verbal exchanges.

It also is without question an American novel; Robinson has made an unspoken agreement with her readers that we possess some intuitive understanding of the fiery arc of radical abolitionism and its dissipation, of the Congregationalists who moved from New England to claim the prairie as Free-Staters, and of the central role of Calvinistic theology in shaping a certain type of intellectual life.

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A Beautiful Novel, Well Worth Your Time

I bought this book simply because it won the Pulitzer and I wanted to read something a little deeper than my usual beach read fare.

It took me some time to get into it, after about 50 pages I realized that I had to slow down and read it more carefully. I went back to the beginning and started to read it like a letter and then I got it. Ms. Robinson has a way with words, if you allow them to they can transport you to the time and place she's writing about.

I spent a lot of time reading and re-reading this short book and by the time I was done I felt I was a part of the family. I've since lent this book to several people and received varying reviews from them but everyone loves the use of language.

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Another book you can't put down to you finish it.

Gilead : A Novel

A man of the cloth who has a child later in life writes a letter to his young son. The father's death is soon and he reviews life by writing this letter. He tells his son about the love he has for his mother, friends and family he has lost and realizations about himself.

Quotes: "The moon actually moves in a spiral, because while it orbits the earth it follows the earth's orbit around the sun."

"It was like on of those dreams where your filled with some extravagance you might never have in life."

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