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Gilead
Average rating
4 out of 5
Based on 12,476 Ratings and 2,811 Reviews

Book Description
Twenty-four years after her first novel, Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson returns with an intimate tale of three generations from the Civil War to the twentieth century: a story about fathers and sons and the spiritual battles that still rage at America's heart. Writing in the tradition of Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman, Marilynne Robinson's beautiful, spare, and spiritual prose allows "even the... More
Book Information
PublisherPicador USA
BindingPaperback (52 editions)
Reading LevelUncategorized
# of Pages247
ISBN-100739453017
ISBN-13978-0739453018
Publication Date/2004
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About Marilynne Robinson (Author) : Marilynne Robinson is a published author. Some of the published credits of Marilynne Robinson include Gilead (Unabridged), Housekeeping (Unabridged), Gilead.
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8/11/2009 Rachel Heston Davis said: My third favorite book.
tags: I recommend, Inspired me, I read

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