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Winner of the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2009, 'Home', written by Marilynne Robinson, sensitively tackles the subject of family relationships and the many ways in which they can affect our past, present and future. The story follows Jack, the prodigal son of Reverend Robert Boughton, who returns to his family home looking for refuge in rural Gilead, Iowa, after disgrace forced him to leave twenty years previous. Jack tries to make peace with his past and to rebuild bridges with his dying father. His sister, Glory also returns to Gilead, to help care for her father and to escape a troubled relationship and the pair forge a new bond as the family tries hard to heal and move forward. This is an emotive, deep and unforgettable book about faith, family and love that survives all - a masterpiece! Read More

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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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    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.

  • 1844085503
  • 9781844085507
  • Marilynne Robinson
  • 16 April 2009
  • Virago Press Ltd
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 336

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