Sunday, December 8, 2024

Gilead, Marilynn Robinson

 

Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

Started: December 6, 2024
Completed: December 8, 2024
Recommendation: Highly Recommended
Recommended By: Nobody that I can think of, but maybe I saw it on the Pulitzer Prize list and with Gilead becoming charged in my mind from The Handmaid's Tale, perhaps that drew me in.

Review:

This is a truly odd book.  An "old man's" letter to his young son is not a format I would have thought to write.  Certainly not a pastor.  Nope, not me.  All the same, this book came across as authentic to me and I enjoyed it.  It seemed a tad like As I Lay Dying (Faulkner) except it was much, much easier to understand and there was less of the ghoulishness of that book.

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