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100 1 $aRobinson, Marilynne.
245 10 $aGilead /$cMarilynne Robinson.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bFarrar, Straus and Giroux,$c2004.
300 $ap. cm.
520 1 $a"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 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."
520 8 $a"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."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aConflict of generations$vFiction.
650 0 $aReminiscing in old age$vFiction.
650 0 $aChildren of clergy$vFiction.
650 0 $aFathers and sons$vFiction.
650 0 $aGrandfathers$vFiction.
650 0 $aClergy$vFiction.
651 0 $aKansas$vFiction.
655 7 $aEpistolary fiction.$2gsafd.
655 7 $aChristian fiction.$2lcsh.
655 7 $aDomestic fiction.$2lcsh.
