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Call Number:
F ROB
Publication Date
2020
Summary:
In 1956, toward the end of Reverend John Ames's life, he begins a letter to his young son, a kind of last testament to his remarkable forebears.
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Books
ISBN
9781250784018
Author
Call Number:
CHR ROB GIL #1
Publication Date
2004
Summary:
In 1956, toward the end of Reverend John Ames's life, he begins a letter to his young son, an account of himself and his forebears. Ames is the son of an Iowan preacher and the grandson of a minister who, as a young man in Maine, saw a vision of Christ bound in chains and came west to Kansas to fight for abolition: He "preached men into the Civil War," then, at age fifty, became a chaplain in the Union Army, losing his right eye in battle. Reverend Ames writes to his son about the tension between his father--an ardent pacifist--and his grandfather, whose pistol and bloody shirts, concealed in an army blanket, may be relics from the fight between the abolitionists and those settlers who wanted to vote Kansas into the union as a slave state. And he tells a story of the sacred bonds between fathers and sons, which are tested in his tender and strained relationship with his namesake, John Ames Boughton, his best friend's wayward son. This is also the tale of another remarkable vision--not a corporeal vision of God but the vision of life as a wondrously strange creation. It tells how wisdom was forged in Ames's soul during his solitary life, and how history lives through generations, pervasively present even when betrayed and forgotten.
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Books
ISBN
9780374153892 9780312424404 9781844081486 9781844081479
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AFIC ROB
Publication Date
2006
Format
Books
ISBN
9780312424404
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Author
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LP FIC ROB
Publication Date
2006
Format
Books
Reproduction Note:
Large Print
ISBN
9781594131240
Author
Call Number:
LTCHR ROB GIL #1 13486
Publication Date
2005
Format
Books
Reproduction Note:
Large Print
ISBN
9780786272013
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Author
Added Author
Call Number:
BCD ROBINSON
Publication Date
2005
Summary:
In 1956, as a minister approaches the end of his life, he writes a letter to his son chronicling three previous generations of his family, a story that stretches back to the Civil War and reveals uncomfortable family secrets.
Format
Audio disc
ISBN
9780792734345
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Author
Added Author
Call Number:
CHR ROB GIL #1
Publication Date
2005
Summary:
In 1956, as a minister approaches the end of his life, he writes a letter to his son chronicling three previous generations of his family, a story that stretches back to the Civil War and reveals uncomfortable family secrets.
Format
Audio disc
ISBN
9781593978228
by
Robinson, Marilynne, Jerome, Tim (NAR)
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eAudiobook
Electronic Format:
BOUNDLESS EAUDIOBOOK
Vendor
Baker and Taylor
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