num_pages: 256
description: Twenty-four years after her first novel, Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson returns with an intimate tale of three generations from the Civil War to the twentieth century: a story about fathers and sons and the spiritual battles that still rage at America's heart. Writing in the tradition of Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman, Marilynne Robinson's beautiful, spare, and spiritual prose allows "even the faithless reader to feel the possibility of transcendent order" (Slate). In the luminous and unforgettable voice of Congregationalist minister John Ames, Gilead reveals the human condition and the often unbearable beauty of an ordinary life.Reading Group Guide
language: English
title: Gilead
titlecomplete: Gilead
characters: John Ames, Jack Boughton, Reverend Robert Boughton
genres: Audiobook, Religion, Historical Fiction, Historical, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, Classics, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 107159
places: Gilead, Iowa
series: Gilead
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Orange Prize
category: Fiction Longlist, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Ambassador Book Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Rodda Book Award, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Frederic G. Melcher Book Award, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Society of Midland Authors Award
category: Adult Fiction, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Grawemeyer Award
category: Religion
publisher: Picador