![]() ![]() ![]() It is Robinsons greatest work, an unforgettable embodiment of the deepest and most universal emotions. Home is a moving and healing book about families, family secrets, and the passing of the generations, about love and death and faith. ![]() Brilliant, lovable, and wayward, Jack forges an intense bond with Glory and engages painfully with Ames, his godfather and namesake. 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 Boughtons most beloved child. Jack is one of the great characters in recent literature. Soon her brother, Jackthe prodigal son of the family, gone for twenty yearscomes home too, looking for refuge and trying to make peace with a past littered with tormenting trouble and pain. ![]() Glory Boughton, aged thirty-eight, has returned to Gilead to care for her dying father. 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, Amess closest friend. Published in 2008, it is Robinson's third novel, preceded by Housekeeping in 1980 and Gilead in 2004. Hundreds of thousands were enthralled by the luminous voice of John Ames in Gilead Marilynne Robinsons Pulitzer Prizewinning novel. Home (Gilead, 2), Marilynne Robinson Home is a novel written by the Pulitzer Prize-winning American author Marilynne Robinson. ![]()
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