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Gilead [electronic resource] / Marilynne Robinson.
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 Iowa preacher and the grandson of a minister who, as a young man in Maine, saw a vision and came west to Kansas to fight for abolition. Reverend Ames tells a story of the sacred bonds between fathers and sons, which are tested in his tender and strained relationship with his best friend's wayward son. 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.
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- Publisher: [North Kingstown, R.I.] : Sound Library, 2005.
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| General Note: | Downloadable audio file. Title from: Title details screen. Unabridged. Duration: 8:54:56. |
| Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Tim Jerome. |
| System Details Note: | Requires OverDrive Media Console Requires OverDrive Media Console (file size: 128170 KB). Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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| Subject: | Conflict of generations > Fiction. Reminiscing in old age > Fiction. Children of clergy > Fiction. Fathers and sons > Fiction. Grandfathers > Fiction. Clergy > Fiction. Kansas > Fiction. |
| Genre: | DOWNLOADABLE AUDIOBOOK. Christian fiction. Audiobooks. |
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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 Iowa preacher and the grandson of a minister who, as a young man in Maine, saw a vision and came west to Kansas to fight for abolition. Reverend Ames tells a story of the sacred bonds between fathers and sons, which are tested in his tender and strained relationship with his best friend's wayward son. 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.
