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  • Orange Prize for Fiction (2009)
  • Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction (2008)
  • National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Fiction (2008)
  • National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (2008)
  • Dublin Literary Award Nominee for Shortlist (2010)
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ISBN: 9781844085507
Publisher: Virago
Date of Publication: 2009-04-16
Format: Paperback
Related Topics: Literature
Goodreads rating: 4.04
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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.
 

  • Orange Prize for Fiction (2009)
  • Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction (2008)
  • National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Fiction (2008)
  • National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (2008)
  • Dublin Literary Award Nominee for Shortlist (2010)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.