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Gilead
By Marilynne Robinson
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 247 pages, $23
Marilynne Robinson’s second novel, following “Housekeeping” in 1981, is a book to be savored one wintry day. In the form of a letter to his young son, an Iowa preacher looks back at his life and meditates on the world and his place in it. This book is radiant.