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Synopsis
"Home" is an entirely independent, deeply affecting novel that takes place concurrently in Gilead, this time in the household of Reverend Robert Boughton, Ames's 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 Boughton's most beloved child.

Brilliant, lovable, and wayward, Jack forges an intense bond with Glory and engages painfully with Ames, his godfather and namesake.

Winner of the 2009 Orange Prize for Fiction

Copyright:
2008

Book Details

Book Quality:
Excellent
Book Size:
325 Pages
ISBN-13:
9780374299101
Publisher:
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Marilynne Robinson
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Literature and Fiction, Parenting and Family, Religion and Spirituality
Submitted By:
Daproim Africa
Proofread By:
Daproim Africa
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.

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