Gilead, Marilynne Robinson

GILEAD by Marilynne Robinson ISBN 978 1 84408 148 6 • Virago 2008  Gilead is an epistolary novel, an extended letter from John Ames, ageing Congregationalist minister of the town of Gilead in Iowa, to his seven-year-old son. Ames is writing in order to instruct his young son. “to tell you the things I would [...]

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Home, Marilynne Robinson

HOME by Marilynne Robinson ISBN 978 1 84408 550 7 • Virago 2009 First published in hardback in America in 2008 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), Home  is a companion novel to Gilead (2004). Robinson returns to the time-period, characters and setting of the earlier novel to tell the story from a different perspective. Both a [...]

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