Gilead
Iowa, fiction
Children of clergy
Reminiscing in old age
Father-son relationship
Conflict of generations
Clergy, fiction
Old age
Abolitionists
Fiction, christian, general
Christian fiction
Grandfathers
Fathers and sons, fiction
Grandparents, fiction
Memory
Domestic fiction
American fiction (fictional works by one author)
Open Library Staff Picks
Fathers and sons
Fiction, family life
Fiction, family life, general
Clergy
Fiction
**WINNER OF THE 2005 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION** 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 C…
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