Gilead novels
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1) Gilead
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English
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As the Reverend John Ames approaches the hour of his own death, he writes a letter to his son chronicling three previous generations of his family, a story that stretches back to the Civil War and reveals uncomfortable family secrets.
2) Home
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Series
Gilead novels volume 2
Language
English
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Glory Boughton, aged thirty-eight, has returned to Gilead to care for her dying father. Soon her brother, Jack--the prodigal son of the family, gone for twenty years--comes home, too, looking for refuge and trying to make peace with a past littered with tormenting trouble and pain.
3) Lila
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Series
Gilead novels volume 3
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English
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Abandoning her homeless existence to become a minister's wife, Lila reflects on her hardscrabble life on the run with a canny young drifter and her efforts to reconcile her painful past with her husband's gentle Christian worldview.
4) Jack
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Series
Gilead novels volume 4
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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Marilynne Robinson's mythical world of Gilead, Iowa, the setting of her novels Gilead, Home, and Lila, and now Jack and its beloved characters have illuminated and interrogated the complexities of American history, the power of our emotions, and the wonders of a sacred world. Jack is Robinson?s fourth novel in this now-classic series. In it, Robinson tells the story of John Ames Boughton, the prodigal son of Gilead's Presbyterian minister, and his...