An edition of Gilead (2004)

Gilead

A Novel

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An edition of Gilead (2004)

Gilead

A Novel

  • 3.1 (9 ratings) ·
  • 93 Want to read
  • 3 Currently reading
  • 20 Have read

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.

Publish Date
Publisher
Picador
Language
English
Pages
256

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Cover of: Gilead
Gilead: A Novel
January 10, 2006, Picador
Paperback in English
Cover of: Gilead
Gilead
2005, Virago
in English
Cover of: Gilead
Gilead
2005, Thorndike Press
in English
Cover of: Gilead
Gilead: A Novel
November 4, 2004, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
in English
Cover of: Gilead
Gilead
2004-01-01, Farrar, Straus & Gioux
Cover of: Gilead
Gilead
2004, HarperCollins
in English - 1st Canadian ed.
Cover of: Gilead
Gilead
2004, Picador
in English

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First Sentence

"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."

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Number of pages
256
Dimensions
8.1 x 5.5 x 1 inches
Weight
8 ounces

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL9351488M
ISBN 10
031242440X
ISBN 13
9780312424404
Library Thing
16914
Goodreads
68210

First Sentence

"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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