Gilead A Novel by Marilynne Robinson - 2006

Picador. Good+; Used; Front cover is lifting slightly.. 2006. Paperback. 031242440x . Trade PB; 0.80 x 8.00 x 5.50; 256 pages; Marilynne Robinson was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for this novel written is such beautiful prose. The 77 year old Reverend John Ames is dying of heart disease. He decides to write his story for his 7 year old son. Having lost his first wife, the reverend stayed single until a woman came to the parish and filled him with such love that he said yes when she asked him to marry her. Set in Gilead, Iowa, John Ames writes to his son about his beginnings, family, friendships and his love, the boy and his mother. Gilead is a novel about all that is good in man. .