Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

282 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

fiction historical literary emotional reflective slow-paced
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Rev. John Ames is 77 years old in 1956, in failing health, with a much younger wife and six-year-old son; as a preacher in the small Iowa town where he spent his entire life, he has produced volumes and volumes of sermons and prayers, "[t]rying to...

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