Gilead (Paperback)

Gilead is no less a masterpiece than Housekeeping * Sunday Times *
Stunning . . . there are gems on every page of Gilead, but it is the whole construction that marks it as a great work * Daily Telegraph *
The slow pulse of Robinson's writing slows the reader's eye and mind, and creates in the reading process a literary version of the narrator's spiritual experience. Gilead reminds us that words have power to spare, to forgive, to do justice * Independent *
A novel as big as a nation, as quiet as thought, and moving as prayer. Matchless and towering * Kirkus Reviews *
A country of mystical sunsets, abandoned shacks, storms that could have come out of the book of Job, snowstorms that that can take your life within a few feet of your own front door, and wild rivers in which one can be baptised. I said Marilynne Robinson's prose was like clear, cold water and so it is - and sometimes it is about water too - you are never far from its cleansing, chilly power, or from the mysterious rush of the wind, sounding like the ocean in a region impossibly far from any sea * Mail Online *
Her poetic, almost biblical style of writing . . . flows like clear cold water and is full of quiet power while remaining oddly conversational . . . People say they love these books, and I can see why. Quite how they can do so without discerning within them a serious, deep, patient but modest defence of the Christian proposition, I do not know * Mail Online *
...a country of mystical sunsets, abandoned shacks, storms that could have come out of the book of Job, snowstorms that that can take your life within a few feet of your own front door, and wild rivers in which one can be baptized. I said Marilynne Robinson's prose was like clear, cold water and so it is - and sometimes it is about water too - you are never far from its cleansing, chilly power, or from the mysterious rush of the wind, sounding like the ocean in a region impossibly far from any sea. * Mail Online *
Her poetic, almost biblical style of writing...flows like clear cold water and is full of quiet power while remaining oddly conversational... People say they love these books, and I can see why. Quite how they can do so without discerning within them a serious, deep, patient but modest defence of the Christian proposition, I do not know. * Mail Online *
Gilead is no less a masterpiece than Housekeeping * Sunday Times *
Stunning... there are gems on every page of Gilead, but it is the whole construction that marks it as a great work * Daily Telegraph *
The slow pulse of Robinson's writing slows the reader's eye and mind, and creates in the reading process a literary version of the narrator's spiritual experience. Gilead reminds us that words have power to spare, to forgive, to do justice * Independent *
A novel as big as a nation, as quiet as thought, and moving as prayer. Matchless and towering. * Kirkus Review *