WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION and THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD
AN OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK
In 1956, towards the end of Reverend John Ames's life, he begins a letter to his young 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
By:
Marilynne Robinson
Imprint: Virago
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions:
Height: 196mm,
Width: 127mm,
Spine: 20mm
Weight: 230g
ISBN: 9781844081486
ISBN 10: 1844081486
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 01 April 2006
Audience:
General/trade
,
ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Part One: The Life of Music, A Note on Young Composers, Music Between the Wars, American Music Since 1930, Influence of Jazz on Modern Music, Opera and Drama, Music in the Movies, Music and Theater, the Composer and Conductor, ASCAP and the Symphonic Composer, A Tribute to Nadia Boulanger; Part Two: Composers and Performers, The Ives case, The Younger Generation of American Composers 1926 - 1959, George Antheil, Leonard Bernstein, In Memory of Mark Blitzstein, Stephan Wolpe, Rosza and Hermann; Part Three: Guggenheim Recommendations, Essays written in support of Guggenheim applicants in music; Part Four: His Own Works, Appalachian Spring, Billy the Kid, Compositional Phases, Composing for Something Wild, Jazz and Folk Influences 1947-63, Oedipus Rex, Piano Fantasy; Part Five: His Journals and Diaries, From a Composer's Notebook, From a Composer's Journal, Previously Unpublished Diaries
Marilynne Robinson was born in 1947. Her first novel, Housekeeping (1981) received the PEN/Hemingway award for best first novel as well as being nominated for the Pulitzer Prize
Reviews for Gilead
'Gilead is a beautiful work - demanding, grave and lucid...Robinson s words have a spiritual force that s very rare in contemporary fiction - James Wood, New York Times Book Review The wait since 1981 and Housekeeping is over. Robinson returns with a second novel that, however quiet in tone and however delicate of step, will do no less than tell the story of America - and break your heart - Kirkus Review Robinson's prose is beautiful, shimmering and precise...Robinson truly succeeds in what is destined to become her second classic - Publishers Weekly A psalm worthy of study, a sermon of the loveliest profundity... A literary miracle - Entertainment Weekly Serenely beautiful...one feels touched with grace just to read it - Washington Post
- Long-listed for Orange Prize 2006 (UK)
- Long-listed for Orange Prize for Fiction 2006
- Long-listed for Orange Prize for Fiction 2006.
- Winner of Pulitzer Prize 2005 (UK)
- Winner of Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2005
- Winner of Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2005.