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ISBN: 0374299102

EAN: 9780374299101

Category: Fiction / Family Life/Fiction / Christian / General/

Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux

Release Date: 09/02/2008

Synopsis: Hundreds of thousands were enthralled by the luminous voice of John Ames in Gilead, Marilynne Robinsons Pulitzer Prizewinning novel. Home is an entirely independent, deeply affecting novel that takes place concurrently in the same locale, this time in the household of Reverend Robert Boughton, Amess closest friend. Glory Boughton, aged thirty-eight, has returned to Gilead to care for her dying father. Soon her brother, Jackthe prodigal son of the family, gone for twenty yearscomes home too, looking for refuge and trying to make peace with a past littered with tormenting trouble and pain. Jack is one of the great characters in recent literature. A bad boy from childhood, an alcoholic who cannot hold a job, he is perpetually at odds with his surroundings and with his traditionalist father, though he remains Boughtons most beloved child. Brilliant, lovable, and wayward, Jack forges an intense bond with Glory and engages painfully with 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 Robinsons greatest work, an unforgettable embodiment of the deepest and most universal emotions.

Awards: International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award – null  Library Journal Best Books of the Year – null  Los Angeles Times Book Prizes – null  National Book Awards – null  National Book Critics Circle Awards – null  New York Times Notable Books of the Year – null  Orange Prize for Fiction – null 

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Illustrated: No

Format: Hardcover

Height: 1.2 inches

Width: 5.75 inches

Length: 8.58 inches

Weight: 16.12 oz

Pages: 336