Volume 55, Number 18 · November 20, 2008
Witnesses to a Mystery
By Claire Messud
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by Marilynne Robinson
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 325 pp., $25.00
In the opening paragraphs of Marilynne Robinson's 2004 Pulitzer Prize–winning novel Gilead, the elderly narrator John Ames, a Congregationalist minister in the small Iowa town of Gilead, tells his young son:
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