Gilead / Marilynne Robinson.
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TextPublication details: New York : Picador, 2006Edition: 1st Picador edDescription: 247 pages ; 22 cmISBN: 031242440x; 9780312424404Subject(s): Conflict of generations -- Fiction | Reminiscing in old age -- Fiction | Children of clergy -- Fiction | Fathers and sons -- Fiction | Grandfathers -- Fiction | Clergy -- FictionGenre/Form: Domestic fiction. LOC classification: PS3568.O3125 | G55 2004Summary: In 1956, toward the end of Rev. John Ames's life, he begins a letter to his young son, an account of himself and his forebears. This is also the tale of wisdom forged during his solitary life and how history lives through generations, pervasively present even when betrayed and forgotten.
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| Martha's Vineyard High School Library | FIC/ROB (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 39844500067503 |
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Originally published: 2004.
In 1956, toward the end of Rev. John Ames's life, he begins a letter to his young son, an account of himself and his forebears. This is also the tale of wisdom forged during his solitary life and how history lives through generations, pervasively present even when betrayed and forgotten.
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