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* From the author of the magnificent, award-winning GILEAD comes a masterpiece novel that returns to the people and places of Gilead
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WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2009Jack Boughton - prodigal son - has been gone twenty years. He returns home seeking refuge and to make peace with the past. A bad boy from childhood, an alcoholic who cannot hold down a job, Jack is perpetually at odds with his surroundings and with his traditionalist father, though he remains Boughton's most beloved child. His sister Glory has also returned, fleeing her own mistakes, to care for their dying father. A moving book about families, about love and death and faith, Home is unforgettable. It is a masterpiece.'One of the greatest living novelists' BRYAN APPLEYARD, SUNDAY TIMES'A luminous, profound and moving piece of writing. There is no contemporary American novelist whose work I would rather read' MICHAEL ARDITTI, INDEPENDENT'Her novels are replete with a sense of felt life, with a deep and abiding sympathy for her characters and a full understanding of their inner lives' COLM TOIBIN'Utterly haunting' JANE SHILLING, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
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Hundreds of thousands of readers were enthralled and delighted by the luminous tender voice of John Ames in Gilead Marilynne Robinson's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Now comes HOME a deeply affecting novel that takes place in the same period and same Iowa town of Gilead. This is Jack's story. Jack - prodigal son of the Boughton family godson and namesake of John Ames gone twenty years - has come home looking for refuge and to try to make peace with a past littered with trouble and pain. A bad boy from childhood an alcoholic who cannot hold down a job Jack is perpetually at odds with his surroundings and with his traditionalist father though he remains Boughton's most beloved child. His sister Glory has also returned to Gilead fleeing her own mistakes to care for their dying father. Brilliant loveable wayward Jack forges an intense new bond with Glory and engages painfully with his father and his father's old friend John Ames.
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Home : Paperback : Little, Brown Book Group : 9781844085507 : : 16 Jul 2009 : Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction
- 1844085503
- 9781844085507
- Marilynne Robinson
- 16 April 2009
- Virago Press Ltd
- Paperback (Book)
- 336
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