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pretentious, false and lying There are many problems with this novel, not least one of credible and intelligent telling. Our so-called preacher, living in Gilead, and presumably a man who knows and reads the Bible, doesn't refer even once to the historical/biblical Gilead, which features quite prominently in the Holy Book. This "preacher" sits and calculates how many words he has written (laboriously counting all the sermons he had given over the years) which is a dubious preoccupation, more likely in a writer such as Robinson, rather than a flesh and blood preacher. And for all his industry, he doesn't share with us even one sermon, for the simple and obvious reason that the writer, out of ignorance and/or laziness of mind, couldn't provide us one. The only time he discusses a sermon to any extent (the story of Hagar and her son Ismael) it is bland and cliched. And another curious point: his 2nd wife is about 40 years younger than he, and his first wife, too, was much younget than he: is Robinson advocating that young girls marry old men? Gilead is a fiction of the worst kind, i.e., pretentious, false and lying. Don't waste your time and money on this one, there are many other good books out there.