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Robinson, Marilynne Gilead
Picador 2005 0-312-93938-8 / 9780312939380 Paperback Very Good+
Twenty-four years after her first novel, Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson r eturns with an intimate tale of three generations from the Civil War to the twentieth century: a story about fathers and sons and the spiritual battle s that still rage at America's heart. Writing in the tradition of Emily Dic kinson and Walt Whitman, Marilynne Robinson's beautiful, spare, and spiritu al prose allows "even the faithless reader to feel the possibility of trans cendent order" (Slate). In the luminous and unforgettable voice of Congrega tionalist minister John Ames, Gilead reveals the human condition and the of ten unbearable beauty of an ordinary life.
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Robinson, Marilynne Gilead
Picador/Farrar/Straus/Giroux 2006 0-00-639383-7 / 9780006393832 Paperback Good
Fans of Robinson's acclaimed debut Housekeeping (1981) will find that the l ong wait has been worth it. From the first page of her second novel, the vo ice of Rev. John Ames mesmerizes with his account of his life--and that of his father and grandfather. 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 volu mes of sermons and prayers, "[t]rying to say what was true." But it is in t his mesmerizing account--in the form of a letter to his young son, who he i magines reading it when he is grown--that his meditations on creation and e xistence are fully illumined. Ames details the often harsh conditions of pe rishing Midwestern prairie towns, the Spanish influenza and two world wars. He relates the death of his first wife and child, and his long years alone attempting to live up to the legacy of his fiery grandfather, a man who sa w visions of Christ and became a controversial figure in the Kansas aboliti onist movement, and his own father's embittered pacifism. During the course of Ames's writing, he is confronted with one of his most difficult and lon g-simmering crises of personal resentment when John Ames Boughton (his name sake and son of his best friend) returns to his hometown, trailing with him the actions of a callous past and precarious future. In attempting to find a way to comprehend and forgive, Ames finds that he must face a final comp rehension of self--as well as the worth of his life's reflections. Robinson 's prose is beautiful, shimmering and precise; the revelations are subtle b
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