ROBINSON, Marilynne.

£350 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

Gilead. First edition, first printing, signed by the author on the title page. This was Robinson's second fictional work, after her debut Housekeeping (1981) became an instant classic. Gilead is "a book about fathers and sons, where Housekeeping was a book about girls and women" (Smith). This epistolary novel follows the life of a preacher in the fictional Iowan town of Gilead in the 1950s. Late in life, and with a failing heart, he writes letters for his only child to read once he's gone. It won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2005.

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