I’ll know most of what there is to know about being dead, but I’ll probably keep it to myself. If you’re a grown man when you read this-it is my intention for this letter that you will read it then-I’ll have been gone a long time. It seems ridiculous to suppose the dead miss anything. I’m always a little surprised to find my eyebrows unsinged after I’ve suffered one of those looks.
It’s a kind of furious pride, very passionate and stern. You reached up and put your fingers on my lips and gave me that look I never in my life saw on any other face besides your mother’s. And then you said, Don’t laugh! because you thought I was laughing at you. I told you you might have a very different life from mine, and from the life you’ve had with me, and that would be a wonderful thing, there are many ways to live a good life. And you put your hand in my hand and you said, You aren’t very old, as if that settled it. I told you last night that I might be gone sometime, and you said, Where, and I said, To be with the Good Lord, and you said, Why, and I said, Because I’m old, and you said, I don’t think you’re old. My thanks to Ellen Levine, and to Katharine Stall and Earle McCartney. If you believe the copy of this e-book you are reading infringes on the author’s copyright, please notify the publisher at. Copyright infringement is against the law. You may not make this e-book publicly available in any way.
The author and publisher have provided this e-book to you for your personal use only. To receive special offers, bonus content,Īnd info on new releases and other great reads,įor email updates on the author, click here. Robinson’s meditation on the paradoxes of American life has given us “something we only occasionally find in the vastness of existence: a glimpse of eternity” (Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal). These four novels, which have won one Pulitzer Prize and two National Book Critics Circle Awards, among many other honors, are a vital contribution to contemporary American literature and a revelation of our national character and humanity. Over the past sixteen years, Marilynne Robinson’s now-mythical world of Gilead, Iowa, and the beloved characters who inhabit it, have illuminated and interrogated the complexities of American history, the power of our emotions, and the wonders of a sacred world. Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead series- Gilead, Home, Lila, and Jack-is an intergenerational story about faith, race, and love radiating out from the interwoven histories of two families in a small Iowa town to encompass all of American life: our ideals and beliefs, our contradictions, failings, and hopes.
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