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14/09/2009
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Trade paperback
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Glory Boughton has returned to Gilead to care for her dying father. soon her brother, Jack—the prodigal son of the family, gone for twenty years—comes home too, looking for refuge and trying to make peace with a past littered with torment and pain.
A troubled boy from childhood, an alcoholic who cannot hold a job, Jack is one of the great characters in recent literature. He is perpetually at odds with his surroundings and with his traditionalist father, though he remains Reverend Boughton’s most beloved child. Brilliant, beguiling, lovable and wayward, Jack forges an intense new bond with Glory and engages painfully with John Ames, his godfather and namesake.
Home is a moving and healing book about families, family secrets and the passing of the generations, about love and death and faith. It is arguably Marilynne Robinson’s greatest work, an unforgettable embodiment of the deepest and most universal emotions.
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Author Extras
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Awards for Home |
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Orange Prize for Fiction 2009
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Los Angeles Times Book Prize 2008
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Orange Prize for Fiction 2009
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Los Angeles Times Book Prize 2008
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Los Angeles Times Book Prize 2008
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“Robinson’s work is morally complex, subtle, and she can be an extraordinary stylist, [her] words pitched precisely to effect.”
— THE GLOBE AND MAIL
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“Home begins simply...and slowly grows in luxury—its last fifty pages are magnificently moving and richly pondered.”
— THE NEW YORKER
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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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Home
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...
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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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