Home marilynne robinson6/3/2023 ![]() ![]() Robinson chooses to continue exploring one of the most interesting characters from Gilead. Home is Robinson’s supplemental novel to Gilead, and it proves to be every bit as splendid as its predecessor with its heartrending characters, beautiful composition, and thought-provoking ideas. It is the type of book destined to be a classic. Gilead is a towering achievement of modern literature. Her passages brim with intense spiritual intuitiveness and immense wisdom. But the resonant power of the book plays out in the beauty of Robinson’s language. In addition, the novel examines three generations of ministers in the Ames’s family. Jack clings to a secret of tremendous moral proportions. His ideas also begin to reveal a developing story focused on Ames’s concerns and suspicions about his namesake, his best friend’s son, named John Jack Boughton. The contents of the letters take on the nature of self-revelatory prayers from the deeply religious Ames, whose voice conveys more than remembrances, reflections, and advice. The novel takes place in the small town of Gilead, Iowa, and the narrative is written from Ames’s perspective as he undertakes an extended letter to his seven-year-old son. ![]() Gilead chronicles the life of John Ames, a seventy-year-old preacher, dying of heart disease. ![]() My reviews of each of the four novels that comprise Marilynne Robinson’s “Gilead” series: ![]()
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