Marilynne Robinson
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| Title | : | Home (Gilead #2) |
| Author | : | Marilynne Robinson |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 325 pages |
| Published | : | September 2nd 2008 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Novels. Literary Fiction. Literature |
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Home parallels the story told in Robinson's Pulitzer Prize-winning Gilead. It is a moving and healing book about families, family secrets, and the passing of the generations, about love and death and faith. 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.Point Books During Home (Gilead #2)
| Original Title: | Home |
| ISBN: | 0374299102 (ISBN13: 9780374299101) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Gilead #2 |
| Characters: | John Ames, Reverend Robert Boughton, Glory Boughton, Jack Boughton |
| Setting: | Gilead, Iowa(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | 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), International Dublin Literary Award Nominee for Shortlist (2010) |
Rating Of Books Home (Gilead #2)
Ratings: 4 From 19770 Users | 3092 ReviewsCriticize Of Books Home (Gilead #2)
Home is not a sequel to Gilead, it is a story that lapses at the same time but told from a different perspective. In fact, this novel could easily be read as a treatise about family, a sort of rich catalog of the varied ways in which a father can hurt a son, a brother can hurt a sister, or vice versa, precisely because they love each other. Its a sad story about miscommunication and failed good intentions wasted over the years that lead to an anticlimactic peak of boundless frustration.TheThis hit me right in the heart. The characters are so deep and finely drawn, yet never overstated, always with the subtle threads of their actions and the revealing dialogue. I grew up in similar climes, in smallish towns in the Midwest, where it all happens. Robinson treats believers with great respect; she recapitulates their quiet and earnest struggles with truth, god and mortality in a special way. Theres not a lot of plot here, in fact some might find this absolutely dry and plodding. But I
This book is simply beautiful and heartbreaking.I started getting emotional, tears started welling up on page 26, when I read this about a sister awaiting her prodigal brother homecoming after twenty years of his absence:"Glory had her own hopes, which were also too high that this visit would happen at all, that it would be interesting, and that Jack would not remember her as the least tolerable, the most officious, the least to be trusted of all his brothers and sisters. She thought and hoped
A companion novel to Gilead told in the third person and telling the story of Jack Broughton, his father Rev Broughton and particularly his youngest sister Glory, living back at home after her fiancée of many years finally stopped his deceit of her (admitting he was married). Many of the scenes directly overlap with Home but are viewed by other observers particularly the interactions between Jack and Ames (mainly recounted by Jack to Glory).As brilliantly written as Gilead although with a very
I hate to say this as it sounds so trite and Im certainly not religious but this is indeed one of those novels that has been touched by the hand of grace. Marilynne Robinson in her unique inimitable way has produced a sublime work that exquisitely captures the life of Reverend Boughton and his children Glory and Jack. This novel encapsulates the ideals of family life and solidarity regardless of what becomes of them and what is so touching is that Jack, the wayward son, who did everything out of
A wonderful read! Home is about family, love, life and second chances. I really enjoyed Glorys account of what happens throughout the novel, although at one point I was tempted to question the reality of what she thinks or wonder about how other characters perceive the same incidents. Her narrative, however, is remarkable, cautious and meticulous when it comes to her brother and father, adding to the familial intensity (this is called a third person limited narrator if you are wondering and I
4.5 stars If youve read Gilead or Lila the characters will be familiar, but yet the story is told from a different perspective. The focus of this story is on Jack Boughton, the wayward son of retired minister, the aging Robert Boughton. Jack returns home to Gilead, seeking an understanding of himself, seeking answers to the question of whether or not he is worthy of redemption, of perhaps starting a new life in this old place he once called home with a woman he loves. The story is told through
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