Gilead
Marilynne Robinson
From the author of Housekeeping, Gilead is the long-hoped- for second novel by one of America's finest writers. Chosen by the New York Times Book Review as one of the top 6 novels of 2004. 'A beautiful novel: wise, tender and perfectly measured' Sarah Wate






you cannot physically read this book fast and i thikn its a beautifl meditation on the intricate nature of lives
very disappointed - overlong and uninvolving, repetitive, unoriginal and frustrating.
Though it's a terribly trite phrase, this is the only book I've ever read to which it actually is a great way of describing it: it has a quiet dignity.

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UML is an almost mind-meltingly boring... said captainmcdan...