Home: A Novel
(Libby/OverDrive eBook, Kindle)
Author
Contributors
Robinson, Marilynne Author
Series
Gilead novels volume 2
Published
Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 2008.
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Available from Libby/OverDrive
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Description
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.
Home is a 2008 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction.
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Citations
APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Robinson, M. (2008). Home: A Novel . Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Robinson, Marilynne. 2008. Home: A Novel. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Robinson, Marilynne. Home: A Novel Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008.
Harvard Citation (style guide)Robinson, M. (2008). Home: a novel. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Robinson, Marilynne. Home: A Novel Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008.
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