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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
September 2008
On Sale: September 2, 2008
336 pages
ISBN: 0374299102
EAN: 9780374299101
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Hundreds of thousands were enthralled by the luminous voice of John Ames in Gilead, Marilynne Robinsonโs Pulitzer Prizeโ winning 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, Amesโs closest friend. Glory Boughton, aged thirty-eight, has returned to Gilead to care for her dying father. Soon her brother, Jackโthe prodigal son of the family, gone for twenty yearsโcomes 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 Boughtonโs 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 Robinsonโs greatest work, an unforgettable embodiment of the deepest and most universal emotions.
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Weekend Edition Saturday - September 20, 2008
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