The Resource Gilead : a novel, Marilynne Robinson
Gilead : a novel, Marilynne Robinson
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The item Gilead : a novel, Marilynne Robinson represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Manchester-by-the-Sea Public Library.
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- Summary
- 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
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- 247 pages
- Isbn
- 9780374153892
- Label
- Gilead : a novel
- Title
- Gilead
- Title remainder
- a novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Marilynne Robinson
- Subject
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- Christian fiction
- Christian fiction
- Clergy -- Fiction
- Conflict of generations -- Fiction
- Domestic fiction
- Domestic fiction
- Fathers and sons -- Fiction
- Grandfathers -- Fiction
- Kansas -- Fiction
- Reminiscing in old age -- Fiction
- Roman américain -- 21e siècle
- American fiction -- 21st century
- Children of clergy -- Fiction
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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
- Awards note
- Pulitzer Prize, Fiction, 2005.
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Robinson, Marilynne
- Dewey number
- 813/.54
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3568.O3125
- LC item number
- G55 2004
- Literary form
- fiction
- Series statement
- Gilead
- Series volume
- bk. 1
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Conflict of generations
- Reminiscing in old age
- Children of clergy
- Fathers and sons
- Grandfathers
- Clergy
- Kansas
- American fiction
- Clergy
- Fathers and sons
- Label
- Gilead : a novel, Marilynne Robinson
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocm54881929
- Dimensions
- 22 cm.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- 247 pages
- Isbn
- 9780374153892
- Lccn
- 2004047063
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)54881929
- Label
- Gilead : a novel, Marilynne Robinson
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocm54881929
- Dimensions
- 22 cm.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- 247 pages
- Isbn
- 9780374153892
- Lccn
- 2004047063
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)54881929
Subject
- Christian fiction
- Christian fiction
- Clergy -- Fiction
- Conflict of generations -- Fiction
- Domestic fiction
- Domestic fiction
- Fathers and sons -- Fiction
- Grandfathers -- Fiction
- Kansas -- Fiction
- Reminiscing in old age -- Fiction
- Roman américain -- 21e siècle
- American fiction -- 21st century
- Children of clergy -- Fiction
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