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Title: Gilead
Author: ROBINSON MARILYNNE
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 25/06/2019
Imprint: HACHETTE, LONDON
Price: $23.00
Publishing status: Active
In 1956, toward the end of Reverend John Ames’s life, he begins a letter to his young son, a kind of last testament to his remarkable forebears.
‘It is a book of such meditative calm, such spiritual intensity that is seems miraculous that her silence was only for 23 years; such measure of wisdom is the fruit of a lifetime. Robinson’s prose, aligned with the sublime simplicity of the language of the bible, is nothing short of a benediction.
You might not share its faith, but it is difficult not to be awed moved and ultimately humbled by the spiritual effulgence that lights up the novel from within’ Neel Mukherjee, The Times
‘Writing of this quality, with an authority as unforced as the perfect pitch in music, is rare and carries with it a sense almost of danger – that at any moment, it might all go wrong. In Gilead, however, nothing goes wrong’
Jane Shilling, Sunday Telegraph
Series: Hachette Essentials
ISBN: 9780349012995
Dimension: 198mm X 126mm
Pages: 288