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Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Virago Press
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2009
Edition: Reprint

Description: 339 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout. A Book About Families. A Son And Daughter Returning Home To Their Dying Father.

Publishers Description: Hundreds of thousands of readers were enthralled and delighted by the luminous, tender voice of John Ames in Gilead, Marilynne Robinsons 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 Jacks 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 Boughtons 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 fathers old friend John Ames.

ISBN: 9781844085507