Marilynne Robinson
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| Title | : | Gilead (Gilead #1) |
| Author | : | Marilynne Robinson |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 247 pages |
| Published | : | January 10th 2006 by Picador USA (first published October 28th 2004) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Religion. Novels |
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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.
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| Original Title: | Gilead |
| ISBN: | 031242440X (ISBN13: 9780312424404) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Gilead #1 |
| Characters: | John Ames, Reverend Robert Boughton, Jack Boughton |
| Setting: | Gilead, Iowa(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2005), Orange Prize Nominee for Fiction Longlist (2006), PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Nominee (2005), Ambassador Book Award for Fiction (2005), Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize for Fiction (2005) Rodda Book Award (2006), National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction (2004), Frederic G. Melcher Book Award (2004), Society of Midland Authors Award for Adult Fiction (2005) |
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"it seems to me now that what you must see here is just an old man struggling with the difficulty of understanding what it is hes struggling with." Gilead pg.202I believe one of the most underappreciated reading venues is the waiting room. While sitting in an auto body waiting room, sipping on some mediocre complimentary coffee, and occasionally being interrupted by newcomers to the room, I read most of Marilynne Robinsons Gilead. The seat was pretty uncomfortable, there was an obnoxious realityForget your theology books and forget your "Christian Fiction". If you really want to get inside the head of someone with a deep, abiding faith in God, you must read "Gilead". Through the story of Rev. John Ames, Marilynne Robinson eloquently expresses so many of the ideas I have had about Christianity and state some difficult theological concepts in easy to understand words. And, she does it without ever getting cheesy or preachy. Reading this book is like floating in a pool on a warm summer
Ponderous. That's "Gilead" in a word. It's supposed to be the slow, insightful reflections of an old preacher writing a letter about his life to his son. Because, you see, the preacher is going to die soon. Actually, most of the book is so slow you feel like he's dying right then and there. Or at least, you wish he would drop dead, because then the book would be over. Keeling over might even be an improvement, since then something would happen.My guess is that after twenty years of not writing,
I am devastated by how much I despised this novel. It was one of the most uninspired stories about Christianity, forgiveness and familial bonds I have ever read. I can't help but wonder if this is the first plotless novel to win a Pulitzer. I'll be on the look out. The framework of the "story" is a dying minister writing in his diary presumably for his now 7 year old son to read after his death. The first person father writing to his son narrative was horrid. I felt like the entire book was one
This novel reminds mewith its beautifully spare prose and the bleak stoicism of its charactersof three books: Per Petterson's Out Stealing Horses, Willa Cather's My Ántonia and Martin Amis's House of Meetings. This is not meant as a statement of influence, but simply one of kinship. The writing in all of these novels is conversational in tone and beautifully compressed, which is enormously hard to do, though it appears easy. Gilead is the story of a Protestant pastor, the Reverent Ames, who, in
First of all, I have some disclaiming to do. I do not believe in God, not even in the most hazy, nondenominational sense of an impersonal 'force' that vouchsafes existence. I was raised Catholic (halfheartedly)by which I mean that I was sent to Catholic school, but my parents were never demonstratively or actively Catholic. They only rarely attended church (precipitated, I think, by a sense of lapsed duty), they never prayed, to my knowledge, and they mostly refrained from any mention of gods or
The only positive thing I can say about this book is that it is well-written, from a formal standpoint. I hated the main character, an old whiny preacher who is writing down the story of his life for his young son. This man incarnates everything I despise about religious blindness and righteousness. Even when the preacher tries to be honest, he always assumes that his absolute truth and morality can't be touched. He ultimately knows everything best, even though he might have made mistakes -
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