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Gilead / Marilynne Robinson.

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Record Number 517430
ISBN 1844081478
9781844081486
Author Robinson, Marilynne
Title Gilead / Marilynne Robinson.
Publisher/Date London : Virago, 2004.
Pagination etc. 282 p. ; 22 cm.
Series Gilead 1.
Summary Note "In 1956, toward the end of Reverend John Ames's life, he begins a letter to his young son, an account of himself and his forebears. Ames is the son of an Iowa preacher and the grandson of a minister who, as a young man in Maine, saw a vision of Christ bound in chains and came west to Kansas to fight for abolition: He "preached men into the Civil War," then, at age fifty, became a chaplain in the Union Army, losing his right eye in battle. Reverend Ames writes to his son about the tension between his father - an ardent pacifist - and his grandfather, whose pistol and bloody shirts, concealed in an army blanket, may be relics from the fight between the abolitionists and those settlers who wanted to vote Kansas into the union as a slave state. And he tells a story of the sacred bonds between fathers and sons, which are tested in his tender and strained relationship with his namesake, John Ames Boughton, his best friend's wayward son.".
"This is also the tale of another remarkable vision - not a corporeal vision of God but the vision of life as a wondrously strange creation. It tells how wisdom was forged in Ames's soul during his solitary life, and how history lives through generations, pervasively present even when betrayed and forgotten."--BOOK JACKET.
Subject Conflict of generations -- Fiction
Reminiscing in old age -- Fiction
Children of clergy -- Fiction
Fathers and sons -- Fiction
Grandfathers -- Fiction
Clergy -- Fiction
Kansas -- Fiction
Sagas.
Epistolary fiction.
Christian fiction.
Shelf Location F ROBI
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