Gilead
de Marilynne Robinson
- Usado
- Aceptable
- Tapa dura
- Firmado
- First
- Estado
- Aceptable/Fine
- Librería
-
Whitby, Ontario, Canada
Formas de pago aceptadas
Sobre este artículo
Boldly signed by the author on the full name/title page. A first printing as evidenced by the 1 through 5 number line. A very collectible copy.
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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Detalles
- Librería
- Michael Laurence Fine Books
(CA)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 025
- Título
- Gilead
- Autor
- Marilynne Robinson
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Aceptable
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Fine
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Editorial
- HarperCollins
- Lugar de publicación
- Toronto
- Fecha de publicación
- 2004
- Peso
- 0.00 libras
Términos de venta
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Sobre el vendedor
Michael Laurence Fine Books
Miembro de Biblio desde 2021
Whitby, Ontario
Sobre Michael Laurence Fine Books
Online book and music store, on and off for several years. Inventory getting too big for my home. Specializing in modern first editions, advance reading copies and uncorrected proofs. Almost half my stock is signed or inscribed by the authors.
Glosario
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- Number Line
- A series of numbers appearing on the copyright page of a book, where the lowest number generally indicates the printing of that...
