- National Book Critics Circle Award Winner, Reminiscing in old age, Fathers and sons, Fiction
**WINNER OF THE 2005 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION**
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Character
Contemplative, earnest, grave and character-led.
- contemplativerelentless
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Marilynne Robinson
- First published
- 2004
- Pages
- 257
- Publisher
- Virago, Picador, Audio Renaissance
- Editions
- 37
- Language
- Chinese, Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9780374602109
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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.”
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