REVIEW - GILEAD

This book is for 2 of my reading challenges.
52 Books in 52 Weeks(Wk.42)
Read, Remember, Recommend

"Gilead" by Marilynne Robinson
Product Description(Amazon.com)
Twenty-four years after her first novel, Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson returns with an intimate tale of three generations from the Civil War to the twentieth century: a story about fathers and sons and the spiritual battles that still rage at America's heart. Writing in the tradition of Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman, Marilynne Robinson's beautiful, spare, and spiritual prose allows "even the faithless reader to feel the possibility of transcendent order" (Slate). In the luminous and unforgettable voice of Congregationalist minister John Ames, Gilead reveals the human condition and the often unbearable beauty of an ordinary life.
# Paperback: 247 pages
# Publisher: Picador; 1st Picador edition (January 10, 2006)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 031242440X
# ISBN-13: 978-0312424404

MY THOUGHTS: I have been wanting to read some Pulitzer Prize books. This challenge Read,Remember,Recommend lets me do that. It gives me a list of books that I can pick from. This books is one of them. It is written in the form of a letter. The man telling the story is dying and he wants to leave something for his son. He is a minister and doesn't own much of worth to leave him. So writes letters, like a journal to his son. It is full of little tidbits about his life and his family's life. Like his grandfather was a minister and his father too. His grandfather was in the Civil War. The book just follows the life of this humble man talking to his son. It is very well written and allows you to see into the life of this man. I really enjoyed reading this book. If you have a chance to read this book by all means read it.

MY RATING: 5