Gilead (Oprah's Book Club)

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER¿ OPRAH¿S BOOK CLUB PICK ¿ WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION ¿ NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER¿ A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK ¿ MORE THAN 1 MILLION COPIES SOLD

¿Quietly powerful [and] moving.¿ O, The Oprah Magazine (recommended reading)

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award, GILEAD is a hymn of praise and lamentation to the God-haunted existence that Reverend Ames loves passionately, and from which he will soon part.

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: He "preached men into the Civil War," then, at age fifty, became a chaplain in the Union Army