Gilead
By: Marilynne Robinson.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux; Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
Subjects: Conflict of generations -- Fiction.; Reminiscing in old age -- Fiction.; Children of clergy -- Fiction.; Fathers and sons -- Fiction.; Grandfathers -- Fiction.; Clergy -- Fiction.; Kansas -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: As the Reverend John Ames approaches the hour of his own death, he writes a letter to his son chronicling three previous generations of his family, a story that stretches back to the Civil War and reveals uncomfortable family secrets.