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Book Description hardcover. Condition: new. Reprint. A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER OPRAHS BOOK CLUB PICK WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK MORE THAN 1 MILLION COPIES SOLDQuietly powerful and moving O The Oprah Magazine recommended readingWinner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award GILEAD is a hymn of praise and lamentation to the Godhaunted existence that Reverend Ames loves passionately and from which he will soon partIn 1956 toward the end of Reverend John Amess 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 battleReverend Ames writes to his son about the tension between his fatheran ardent pacifistand 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 friends wayward sonThis is also the tale of another remarkable visionnot a corporeal vision of God but the vision of life as a wondrously strange creation It tells how wisdom was forged in Amess soul during his solitary life and how history lives through generations pervasively present even when betrayed and forgotten. Seller Inventory # DADAX0374602107
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