Gilead

Marilynne Robinson, Gilead

Cycle 04 — Novel.

Framing

“In 1956, toward the end of Reverend John Ames’s 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.”¹

Footnotes

1. Google Books, Farrar, Straus and Giroux edition. https://books.google.com/books/about/Gilead.html?id=ERVAPnnF3gcC ↩