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WINNER OF THE 2005 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION
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 Iowan 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.
Gilead is the long-hoped-for second novel by one of our finest writers, a hymn of praise and lamentation to the God-haunted existence that Reverend Ames loves passionately, and from which he will soon part.
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Jilie jia shu: Gilead
2007, Ren min wen xue chu ban she
in Chinese
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702005921X 9787020059218
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Yi'aijilie: Gilead
2006, Tian pei wen hua you xian gong si
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Gilead
January 10, 2006, Large Print Press
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Gilead: A Novel
March 31, 2005, Audio Renaissance
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Gilead
2004, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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Originally published: U.S. : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004.
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"I told you last night that I might be gone sometime, and you said, Where, and I said, To be with the Good Lord, and you said, Why, and I said, Because I'm old, and you said, I don't think you're old."
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