Résumé
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION and THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDIn 1956, towards the end of Reverend John Ames's life, he begins a letter to his young son: 'I told you last night that I might be gone sometime . . . You reached up and put your fingers on my lips and gave me that look I never in my life saw on any other face besides your mother's. It's a kind of furious pride, very passionate and stern. I'm always a little surprised to find my eyebrows unsinged after I've suffered one of those looks. I will miss them.''A visionary work of dazzling originality' ROBERT MCCRUM, OBSERVER'Writing of this quality, with an authority as unforced as the perfect pitch in music, is rare and carries with it a sense almost of danger' JANE SHILLING, DAILY TELEGRAPH'A beautiful novel: wise, tender and perfectly measured' SARAH WATERS'A masterpiece' SUNDAY TIMES
Quatrième de couverture
Winner of the 2005 National Book Critics Circle Award In 1956, towards the end of Reverend John Ames's life, he begins a letter to his young son: 'I told you last night that I might be gone sometime . . . you reached up and put your fingers on my lips and gave me that look I never in my life saw on any other face besides your mother's. It's a kind of furious pride, very passionate and stern. I'm always a little surprised to find my eyebrows unsinged after I've suffered one of those looks. I will miss them.' 'A visionary work of dazzling originality' Robert McCrum, Observer 'Writing of this quality, with an authority as unforced as the perfect pitch in music, is rare and carries with it a sense almost of danger' Jane Shilling, Sunday Telegraph'It is difficult not to be awed, moved and ultimately humbled' Neel Mukherjee, The Times 'A great work of literature' John de Falbe, Daily TelegraphChosen by the New York Times Book Review as one of the top six novels of the yearBiographie de l'auteurMarilynne Robinson, author ofHousekeeping,Gilead,Home,Lila and Jack, is the winner of the Hemingway PEN award, the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Women's Prize for Fiction and has twice been nominated for the International Booker Prize. She has also published six volumes of essays. In 2012 she was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Obama and in 2016 she was given The Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction and was one ofTime magazine's list of 100 most influential people. She lives in Iowa.
À propos de l'auteur
Robinson, Marilynne
Marilynne Robinson, author ofHousekeeping,Gilead,Home,Lila and Jack, is the winner of the Hemingway PEN award, the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Women's Prize for Fiction and has twice been nominated for the International Booker Prize. She has also published six volumes of essays. In 2012 she was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Obama and in 2016 she was given The Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction and was one ofTime magazine's list of 100 most influential people. She lives in Iowa.
Fiche technique
- Titre : Gilead
- Auteur : Robinson, Marilynne
- Langue : Anglais
- Format : Broché
- Nombre de pages : 288
- Genre : Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
- Date de publication : 02-02-2006
- Édition : Virago
- Poids : 0.20499772044347736 kg
- Dimensions : 19.599999980008 x 1.99999999796 x 12.699999987045999 cm
- ISBN-10 : 1844081486
- ISBN-13 : 9781844081486
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