Gilead - 1st US Edition/1st Printing
de Robinson, Marilynne
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Fine in Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0374153892
- ISBN 13
- 9780374153892
- Librería
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Summerville, South Carolina, United States
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New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2004. 1st US Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0374153892 . A handsome first US edition/first printing in Fine condition in Fine dust-jacket; Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award winning Gilead is Marilynne Robinson's second novel after "Housekeeping" and is the immensely moving account of Reverend John Ames of Gilead, Iowa, a grandson and son of preachers. Ames, now in his seventies, hasn't much time left to tell his young son about his heritage and begins to write it all down; 8vo .
Sinopsis
In 1956, toward the end of Reverend John Ames’s life, he begins a letter to his young son, an account of himself and his forebears. Ames is the son of an Iowan preacher and the grandson of a minister who, as a young man in Maine, saw a vision of Christ bound in chains and came west to Kansas to fight for abolition: He “preached men into the Civil War,” then, at age fifty, became a chaplain in the Union Army, losing his right eye in battle. Reverend Ames writes to his son about the tension between his father--an ardent pacifist--and his grandfather, whose pistol and bloody shirts, concealed in an army blanket, may be relics from the fight between the abolitionists and those settlers who wanted to vote Kansas into the union as a slave state. And he tells a story of the sacred bonds between fathers and sons, which are tested in his tender and strained relationship with his namesake, John Ames Boughton, his best friend’s wayward son. This is also the tale of another remarkable vision--not a corporeal vision of God but the vision of life as a wondrously strange creation. It tells how wisdom was forged in Ames’s soul during his solitary life, and how history lives through generations, pervasively present even when betrayed and forgotten. Gilead is the long-hoped-for second novel by one of our finest writers, a hymn of praise and lamentation to the God-haunted existence that Reverend Ames loves passionately, and from which he will soon part (from publisher).
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- Librería
- Books Tell You Why, Inc.
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 17888
- Título
- Gilead - 1st US Edition/1st Printing
- Autor
- Robinson, Marilynne
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Fine in Fine dust jacket
- Edición
- 1st US Edition; First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0374153892
- ISBN 13
- 9780374153892
- Editorial
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 2004
- Palabras clave
- Collectible Rare Out-Of-Print, Cons Strang
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Awarded Books / Pulitzer Prize; Awarded Books / National Book Critics Circle;
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