Gilead: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

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DESCRIPTION : WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION and THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDIn 1956, towards the end of Reverend John Ames's life, he begins a letter to his yo ung son: 'I told you last night that I might be gone sometime . . . You reached up and put your fingers on my lips and gave me that look I never in my life saw on any other face besides your mother's. It's a kind of furious pride, very passionate and stern. I'm always a little surprised to find my eyebrows unsinged after I've suffered one of those looks. I will miss them.''A visionary work of dazzling originality' ROBERT MCCRUM, OBSERVER'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' JANE SHILLING, DAILY TELEGRAPH'A beautiful novel: wise, tender and perfectly measured' SARAH WATERS'A masterpiece' SUNDAY TIMES PRODUCT DETAILS : ISBN : 9781844081486 BY (AUTHOR) Robinson, Marilynne PUBLISHER : Little, Brown Book Group PUBLICATION DATE : February 02, 2006 COUNTRY OF PUBLICATION : United Kingdom IMPRINT : Virago Press Ltd LANGUAGE : English AGE : General PRODUCT FORM : Paperback / softback DIMENSION : 196 mm x 127 mm WEIGHT : 230 g PRODUCT CATEGORY : Fiction & Related items Show more