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Gilead
- Narrated by: Tim Jerome
- Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
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Gilead
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Publisher's Summary
Pulitzer Prize, Fiction, 2005
National Book Critics Circle Award, Fiction, 2005
From the author of Housekeeping, Gilead is the long-hoped-for second novel by one of America's finest writers.Chosen by the New York Times Book Review as one of the top six novels of 2004.
In 1956, toward the end of Reverend John Ames' life, he begins a letter to his young son, a kind of last testament to his remarkable forebears.
Critic Reviews
"Writing of this quality, with an authority as unforced as the perfect pitch in music, is rare and carries with it a sense almost of danger - that at any moment, it might all go wrong. In Gilead, however, nothing goes wrong." ( Jane Shilling, Sunday Telegraph)
"The gently American, finely judged narration succeeds in combining contemplation with vigour and in conveying a suggestion of mysticism." ( The Observer)
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- Rodney Wetherell
- 20-08-2016
Detail and depth
This is a most unusual novel for the contemporary scene, with its concentration on Christianity and the life of a minister. I found it absorbing, and the reader excellent.
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- Anonymous User
- 20-02-2024
A beautiful meditation and story for deep thinkers
The tone assumed by the reader was eminently suitable for this nuanced, poignant story of love, loss, healing and forgiveness.
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- Anonymous User
- 10-08-2018
interesting but a bit laboured. Very well told
Narration was great. Storyline began well but laboured a bit midway, still kept my interest enough to finish.
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- Jane Douglas
- 08-10-2018
Beautifully read
Not quite sure I love the story. So beautifully read though. And definitely well written.
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- Efrosini
- 03-10-2019
Exquisite
Gilead fills the reader with the radiance that emanates from deep faith in God and the human person. The narrator wcould not have better suited to this book.
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