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ISBN: 1427205108

EAN: 9781427205100

Category: Fiction / General

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Release Date: 09/16/2008

Synopsis: Hundreds of thousands were enthralled by the luminous voice of John Ames in Gilead, Marilynne Robinsons Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Homeis 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, 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 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. Homeis 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.

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Format: Compact Disc

Height: 1.56 inches

Width: 5.42 inches

Length: 5.81 inches

Weight: 3.53 oz