Critical Praise

"Robinson's 1981 debut, Housekeeping, was a perfect novel if ever there was one, and her long-awaited second novel proves just as captivating . . . Robinson's prose is lovely and wonderfully precise . . . Gilead is a gentle journey that will be even better the second time you read it."

——Jeremy Jackson, People

"[Gilead] is so serenely beautiful, and written in a prose so gravely measured and thoughtful, that one feels touched with grace just to read it. Gilead possesses the quiet ineluctable perfection of Flaubert's A Simple Heart as well as the moral and emotional complexity of Robert Frost's deepest poetry . . . Immensely moving."

——Michael Dirda, The Washington Post Book World

"A major work."

——Philip Connors, Newsday

2005 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Fiction 2004 National Book Critics Circle Winner "Gilead is a beautiful work--demanding, grave and lucid . . . Robinson's words have a spiritual force that's very rare in contemporary fiction."

——James Wood, The New York Times Book Review