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In 1980, Marilynne Robinson drew the devotion of readers with her debut
novel, Housekeeping, a book that won the PEN/Hemingway Award and has
become a modern classic. In 2004, her second novel, Gilead, was published to
critical acclaim and won both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the
Pulitzer Prize. Now, Marilynne Robinson has written her third stunning novel -- Home.
Set in the rural town of Gilead, Iowa, in 1961, Home
is the story of the Boughton family, of the aged Reverend Boughton and of his
middle-aged daughter, Glory, who returns to the family home to care for her
elderly father after a failed engagement. But it is also the story of Jack
Boughton, a troubled but brilliant son and brother, estranged from the family
for 20 years. Looking for refuge from a secret he won’t reveal, by turns distant
and compassionate, Jack has returned as well. Caught between the betrayals of
the past, hopes for the future, and the mingling of love and resentment in the
present, these three characters explore all that it means to come home. Home reflects the story of Reverend John Ames as told
in Gilead, and the two novels complement each other, but like good neighbours
they also stand apart. Marilynne Robinson has produced another masterwork, a
rich and moving novel that is both tender and healing.
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When I Was a Child I Read Books
Since the 1981 publication of Marilynne Robinson’s novel Housekeeping —a stunning debut that was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize—she has built a reputation not only as a writer of sharp, subtly moving prose, but also as a rigorous thinker and incisive essayist. Her compelling and demanding...
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Gilead
A NOVEL THAT READERS and critics have been eagerly anticipating for over a decade, Gilead is an astonishingly imagined story of remarkable lives. John Ames is a preacher, the son of a preacher and the grandson (both maternal and paternal) of preachers. It’s 1956 in Gilead, Iowa, towards the...
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