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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780374299101
ISBN: 0374299102
Label: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 336
Publication Date: September 02, 2008
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date: September 02, 2008
Studio: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Sales Rank: 966
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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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Amazon Best of the Month, September 2008: "What does it mean to come home?" In one way or another, every character in Home is searching for that answer. Glory Boughton, now 38 and lovelorn, has returned to Gilead to care for her dying father. Her wayward brother Jack also finds his way back, though his is an uneasy homecoming, reverberating with the scandal that drove him away twenty years earlier. Glory and Jack unravel their stories slowly, speaking to each other more in movements than in words--a careful glance here, a chair pulled out from the table there--against a domestic backdrop so richly imagined you may be fooled into believing their house is your own. Meanwhile, their father, whose ebullient love for his children is a welcome counterpoint to Glory and Jack's conflicted emotions, experiences his own kind of reckoning as he yearns to understand his troubled son. There is a simplicity to this story that belies the complexity of its characters--they are bound together by a profound capacity for love and by an equally powerful sense of private conviction that tries the ties that bind, but never breaks them. It's a delicate sort of tension that you think would resist exposition--and in fact these characters seem to want nothing more than, as Glory says, to treat "one another's deceptions like truth"--but Marilynne Robinson's fine, tender prose imbues this family's secrets with an overwhelming grace. --Anne Bartholomew
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All the sons and daughters of the Rev. Boughton dutifully return home to Gilead for Thanksgiving and Christmas, submit to the family traditions, and then quickly leave again to pursue their own lives. All but one: Jack, the prodigal son, has not been heard from in twenty years. When he suddenly turns up in Gilead, he is surrounded by mystery: Where has he been all these years? What has he been doing? Why is he coming back now?
His ailing, widowed father, whose patience and forbearance seem ... Read More
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"What does it mean to come home?"
Marilynne Robinson poses the question and her book suggests how complex that wish may be. Jack, the prodigal son and favored child of the 8 children of a small town minister in Iowa in the mid 1950s returns home after a 20 year flight. He is an alcoholic and a self proclaimed thief, who has spent time in jail and seems to exist via " the kindness of strangers" as another book memorably posits, as well as odd jobs and kind women.
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I have not read Marilynne Robinson's books, but after reading Home I intend to.
Home is a languid, terribly sad, story about the relationship between a dutiful daughter, a prodigal son and a dying father. Glory, the daughter, hurt in love, has come home to care for her aging father in the town of Gilead. Into their life comes Jack, the son who has been missing for twenty years: the criminal son, the alcoholic son, and the son the father worried about for all those years. For one ... Read More
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I was given this book for Christmas by my husband and 7 year old son and was only able to finish it from the desire not to hurt thier feelings. The only good part about it was the feeling of accomplishment I had for sticking it out and making it through to the end. One word.... B-O-R-I-N-G
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In the case of a writer less gifted and more commercially driven than Marilynne Robinson, it would be tempting to conclude that HOME, set in the mid-1950s in the same small Iowa town as her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel GILEAD, represented a mercenary attempt to capitalize on the well-deserved honors accorded that book. Instead, she has accomplished the feat of reintroducing the characters of GILEAD from a fresh perspective, with a grace and wisdom that will deepen the understanding of readers of that ... Read More
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