- Iowa, Fathers and sons, Fiction, Fathers and daughters
Hailed as "incandescent," "magnificent," and "a literary miracle" (Entertainment Weekly), hundreds of thousands of readers were enthralled by Marilynne Robinson's Gilead. Now Robinson returns with a brilliantly imagined retelling of the prodigal son parable, set at the same moment and in the same Iowa town as Gilead.
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Earnest, contemplative, grave and intimate.
- earnestironic
- contemplativerelentless
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Marilynne Robinson, Maggi-Meg Reed
- First published
- 2008
- Pages
- 336
- Publisher
- Virago, Harper Perennial, Picador
- Editions
- 27
- Language
- heb, English
- ISBN
- 9788481099638
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