The Gilead Novels (Oprah's Book Club) |
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| Author:
| Robinson, Marilynne |
| ISBN: | 978-0-374-60535-3 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2021 |
| Publisher: | Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
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Book Description:
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Marilynne Robinson's Gilead series--Gilead, Home, Lila, and Jack--is an intergenerational story about faith, race, and love radiating out from the interwoven histories of two families in a small Iowa town to encompass all of American life: our ideals and beliefs, our contradictions, failings, and hopes. Over the past sixteen years, Marilynne Robinson's now-mythical world of Gilead, Iowa, and the beloved characters who inhabit it, have...
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Marilynne Robinson's Gilead series--Gilead, Home, Lila, and Jack--is an intergenerational story about faith, race, and love radiating out from the interwoven histories of two families in a small Iowa town to encompass all of American life: our ideals and beliefs, our contradictions, failings, and hopes.
Over the past sixteen years, Marilynne Robinson's now-mythical world of Gilead, Iowa, and the beloved characters who inhabit it, have illuminated and interrogated the complexities of American history, the power of our emotions, and the wonders of a sacred world.
These four novels, which have won one Pulitzer Prize and two National Book Critics Circle Awards, among many other honors, are a vital contribution to contemporary American literature and a revelation of our national character and humanity. Robinson's meditation on the paradoxes of American life has given us "something we only occasionally find in the vastness of existence: a glimpse of eternity" (Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal).