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02564aam a2200409 i 4500 001 1C48AA20A71E11EBB7E268FB48ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210427010157 008 200221t20202004nyu e 000 1 eng d 020 $a 1250784018 020 $a 9781250784018 035 $a (OCoLC)1141153497 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d JUH $d SILO 043 $a n-us-ia 100 1 $a Robinson, Marilynne, $e author. 245 10 $a Gilead : $b a novel / $c Marilynne Robinson. 250 $a Picador paperback reissue. 264 1 $a New York : $b Picador, $c 2020. 300 $a 247 pages ; $c 22 cm 490 0 $a Gilead ; $v 1 490 0 $a Oprah's book club ; $v 2021 520 $a In 1956, toward the end of Reverend John Ames' 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' soul during his solitary life, and how history lives through generations, pervasively present even when betrayed and forgotten. 650 0 $a Clergy $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Children of clergy $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Fathers and sons $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Grandfathers $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Conflict of generations $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Reminiscing in old age $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Iowa $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Historical fiction. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Domestic fiction. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Religious fiction. $2 lcgft 941 $a 3 952 $l S2PA501 $d 20231018120643.0 952 $l ESPD725 $d 20221228095808.0 952 $l S1PD771 $d 20210427011948.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=1C48AA20A71E11EBB7E268FB48ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search