Marilynne Robinson’s novels always leave me with ... turn radiant at once,” writes John Ames, the narrator of Gilead, an ...
Time is going. I’ll be 82. Gotta go." The novel Home is a fragment of the classic Gilead series of Marilynne Robinson. The background of the book is set in 1956 in a fictional rural area of Iowa.
Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead. Robinson has created an entire fictional universe for us, shot through with Ames’s beguiling ruminations on God, natural beauty, life and meaning. Now she takes us ...