The Gilead Novels (Oprah's Book Club)
Author | : Marilynne Robinson |
Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | : 1184 |
Release | : 2021-03-16 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780374605353 |
ISBN-13 | : 0374605351 |
Rating | : 4/5 (53 Downloads) |
Download or read book The Gilead Novels (Oprah's Book Club) written by Marilynne Robinson and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 1184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead series—Gilead, Home, Lila, and Jack—is an intergenerational story about faith, race, and love radiating out from the interwoven histories of two families in a small Iowa town to encompass all of American life: our ideals and beliefs, our contradictions, failings, and hopes. Over the past sixteen years, Marilynne Robinson’s now-mythical world of Gilead, Iowa, and the beloved characters who inhabit it, have illuminated and interrogated the complexities of American history, the power of our emotions, and the wonders of a sacred world. These four novels, which have won one Pulitzer Prize and two National Book Critics Circle Awards, among many other honors, are a vital contribution to contemporary American literature and a revelation of our national character and humanity. Robinson’s meditation on the paradoxes of American life has given us “something we only occasionally find in the vastness of existence: a glimpse of eternity” (Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal).