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An edition of Gilead (2004)

Gilead

  • 3.1 (9 ratings) ·
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Il pastore John Ames sarà morto quando suo figlio aprirà la lettera che gli sta scrivendo. Siamo nel 1956, John ha 76 anni e sente che la fine è prossima. Dieci anni prima ha incontrato l'attuale signora Ames, molto piú giovane di lui. La donna aveva sofferto molto: il pastore se ne innamorò e in lui la ragazza ha trovato conforto e assistenza. Ora sembra proprio che siano felici, sotto ogni punto di vista. Il vecchio padre sente che il figlio di sei anni non potrà mai veramente conoscere la sua storia. A Gilead, Iowa, la città che non ha mai lasciato, Ames inizia cosí a scrivere una specie di testamento, la storia della sua famiglia. Racconta di suo nonno, un uomo impegnato nelle lotte contro la schiavitù, del padre pacifista durante la guerra di Secessione. E poi si chiede: cosa ho imparato io da tutti voi?

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Publisher
Einaudi
Pages
257

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2017, Einaudi
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2005, Virago
in English
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2005, Thorndike Press
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Gilead
2004, Picador
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2004-01-01, Farrar, Straus & Gioux
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Gilead: A Novel
November 4, 2004, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
in English
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Gilead
2004, HarperCollins
in English - 1st Canadian ed.

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Edition Notes

Translation Of
Gilead
Translated From
English

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Format
Brossura
Number of pages
257

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Open Library
OL48596162M
ISBN 13
9788806233853

First Sentence

"I told you last night that I might be gone sometime, and you said, Where, and I said, To be with the Good Lord, and you said, Why, and I said, Because I'm old, and you said, I don't think you're old."

Work Description

WINNER OF THE 2005 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION

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.

Gilead is the long-hoped-for second novel by one of our finest writers, a hymn of praise and lamentation to the God-haunted existence that Reverend Ames loves passionately, and from which he will soon part.

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