Winner of the 2005 National Book Critics Circle Award In 1956, towards the end of Reverend John Ames's life, he begins a letter to his young son: 'I told you last night that I might be gone sometime . . . you reached up and put your...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK . WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION . NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER. A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK . MORE THAN 1 MILLION COPIES SOLD"Quietly powerful [and] moving."...