Jack, September 2020
Hardcover / e-Book Lila, October 2014
Hardcover / e-Book Absence Of Mind, June 2010
Hardcover Home: A Novel, September 2008
Hardcover Gilead, January 2006
Paperback Gilead, November 2004
Hardcover Housekeeping, November 2004
Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
Hundreds of thousands were enthralled by the luminous voice
of John Ames in Gilead, Marilynne Robinson’s Pulitzer Prize–
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, 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.
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 Robinson’s greatest work, an
unforgettable embodiment of the deepest and most universal
emotions.
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