![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() : 9 Ames indicates he was born in 1880 and that, at the time of writing, he is seventy-six years old. At the beginning of the book, the date is established as 1956, and Ames explains that he is writing an account of his life for his seven-year-old son, who will have few memories of him. It comprises the fictional autobiography of the Reverend John Ames, an elderly, white Congregationalist pastor in the small, secluded town of Gilead, Iowa (also fictional), who knows that he is dying of a heart condition. Gilead is an epistolary novel, as the entire narrative is a single, continuing, albeit episodic, document, written on several occasions in a form combining a journal and a memoir. It is Robinson's second novel, following Housekeeping (1980). It won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Gilead is a novel written by Marilynne Robinson published in 2004. ![]()
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