This like-new hardcover edition is near fine, no marks, pages are tight and appear unread, the book is tight, square, and unmarked. The dust jacket is unmarked, beige cloth boards, and bright gilt lettering on the spine of the book. Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004) is a Pulitzer Prize–winning novel told through the reflections of Reverend John Ames, a Congregationalist minister in 1950s Gilead, Iowa. As he writes to his young son, Ames recalls his grandfather—a radical abolitionist preacher and Civil War veteran—exploring themes of memory, moral inheritance, and the war’s enduring impact on American life.