Gilead /
Marilynne Robinson.
- Toronto : Harper Perennial ; 2004.
- 247 p. : cov. ill. ; 21 cm.
"As the Reverend John Ames approaches the hour of his own death, he writes a letter to his son chronicling three previous generations of his family, a story that stretches back to the Civil War and reveals uncomfortable family secrets." (Book Cover)
9780006393832 (pbk)
Conflict of generations--Fiction. Fathers and sons--Fiction. Children of clergy--Fiction. Grandfathers--Fiction.