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"In 1956, toward the end of Reverend John Ames's life, he begins a letter to his young son, a kind of last testament to his remarkable forebears. Ames is troubled too by his prodigal namesake, Jack Boughton, his best friend's ne'er-do-well son, who seems to be a living contradiction of everything that Ames stands for."
"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 rage within all of us."
"Rev. John Ames is 77 years old in 1956, in failing health, with a much younger wife and six-year-old son; as a preacher in the small Iowa town where he spent his entire life, he has produced volumes and volumes of sermons and prayers, "[t]rying to say what was true." But it is in this mesmerizing account?in the form of a letter to his young son, who he imagines reading it when he is grown?that his meditations on creation and existence are fully illumined. Ames details the often harsh conditions of perishing Midwestern prairie towns, the Spanish influenza and two world wars. He relates the death of his first wife and child, and his long years alone attempting to live up to the legacy of his fiery grandfather, a man who saw visions of Christ and became a controversial figure in the Kansas abolitionist movement, and his own father's embittered pacifism. During the course of Ames's writing, he is confronted with one of his most difficult and long-simmering crises of personal resentment when John Ames Boughton (his namesake and son of his best friend) returns to his hometown, trailing with him the actions of a callous past and precarious future. In attempting to find a way to comprehend and forgive, Ames finds that he must face a final comprehension of self?as well as the worth of his life's reflections."@en
"In 1956, toward the end of Rev. John Ames's life, he begins a letter to his young son, an account of himself and his forebears. This is also the tale of wisdom forged during his solitary life and how history lives through generations, pervasively present even when betrayed and forgotten."@en
"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 Iowa 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, losing his right eye in battle. Reverend Ames writes to his son about the tension between his father - an ardent pacifist - and his grandfather, whose pistol and bloody shirts, concealed in an army blanket, may be relics from the fight between the abolitionists and those settlers who wanted to vote Kansas into the union as a slave state. And he tells a story of the sacred bonds between fathers and sons, which are tested in his tender and strained relationship with his namesake, John Ames Boughton, his best friend's wayward son."@en
"In 1956, as a minister approaches the end of his life, he writes a letter to his son chronicling three previous generations of his family, a story that stretches back to the Civil War and reveals uncomfortable family secrets."
"Een bejaarde dominee schrijft in 1956 aan zijn dan 7-jarige zoon over vroeger en heden."
"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 rage within all of us."
"Reverend John Ames is dying in 1956 in Gilead, Iowa, and he is recording his family's story. Glory Boughton has returned to care for her dying father and soon her brother, Jack, the prodigal son, comes home, too."@en
"As the Reverend John Ames approaches the hour of his own death, he writes a letter to his son chronicling three previous generations of his family, a story that stretches back to the Civil War and reveals uncomfortable family secrets."@en
"As the Reverend John Ames approaches the hour of his own death, he writes a letter to his son chronicling three previous generations of his family, a story that stretches back to the Civil War and reveals uncomfortable family secrets."
"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 Iowa 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. Reverend Ames writes to his son about the tension between his father--an ardent pacifist-- and his grandfather, whose pistol and bloody shirts concealed in an army blanket, may be relics from the fight between the abolitionists and those settlers who wanted to vote Kansas into the Union as a slave state. And he tells a story of the sacred bonds between fathers and sons, which are tested in his tender and strained relationship with his namesake, John Ames Boughton, his best friend's wayward son. This is also the tale of a another remarkable vision---not a corporeal vision of God but the vision of life as a wondrously strange creation. It tells how wisdom was forged in Ames's soul during his solitary life, and how history lives through generations, pervasively present even when betrayed and forgotten."@en
"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, losing his right eye in battle. Reverend Ames writes to his son about the tension between his father--an ardent pacifist--and his grandfather, whose pistol and bloody shirts, concealed in an army blanket, may be relics from the fight between the abolitionists and those settlers who wanted to vote Kansas into the union as a slave state. And he tells a story of the sacred bonds between fathers and sons, which are tested in his tender and strained relationship with his namesake, John Ames Boughton, his best friend's wayward son. This is also the tale of another remarkable vision--not a corporeal vision of God but the vision of life as a wondrously strange creation. It tells how wisdom was forged in Ames's soul during his solitary life, and how history lives through generations, pervasively present even when betrayed and forgotten."
"Een bejaarde dominee schrijft in 1856 aan zijn dan 7-jarige zoon over vroeger en heden."

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"Translations"
"Large type books"@en
"Americké romány"
"Sagas"@en
"Epistolary fiction"@en
"Epistolary fiction"
"Christian fiction"@en
"Christian fiction"
"Belletristische Darstellung"
"Romans (teksten)"
"History"@en
"Domestic fiction"@en
"Domestic fiction"
"Fiction"
"Fiction"@en
"Publishers' advertisements"
"Roman américain"
"Electronic books"@en
"Electronic books"
"American fiction"

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"Gilead : romance"
"基列家书 = Gilead"
"Gia hương = Gilead : tiẻ̂u thuyé̂t đoạt giải Pulitzer 2005"
"Killiadŭ = Gilead"
"길리아드"
"Killiadŭ"
"Gia Hương"
"Ji lie jia shu = Gilead"
"Gilead : a novel"
"Jilie jia shu = Gilead"
"Galad"
"Jilie jia shu"
"Gilead : A novel"
"Gilead : [regény]"@hu
"Gilead"@it
"Gilead"@sv
"Gilead"@da
"Gilead"@pl
"Gilead"@es
"Gilead"
"Gilead"@en
"Gilead : roman"
"基列家书"
"Gilead : Roman"
"Ji lie jia shu"
"Gilead : [a novel]"

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