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Home (Gilead #2)

Marilynne Robinson

Hardcover | Pages: 325 pages

Rating: 4 | 19770 Users | 3092 Reviews

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Title	:	Home (Gilead #2)
Author	:	Marilynne Robinson
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe 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.

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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)

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Ratings: 4 From 19770 Users | 3092 Reviews

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I don't think I have ever read a novel that so accurately describes the thoughts and actions and motivations of human beings. There was not one false note in this entire book. People acted in this book how they actually do in real life (at least in my experience). Their feelings of love and anger and self-hate were so acute, I often found myself relating to each character more than once. Maybe some of this comes from where I am emotionally right nowsomewhere teetering between hope and

After sleeping with the emotional state this book left me in, I have edited my review and changed it to a solid five stars. "It is a book unsparing in its acknowledgment of sin and unstinting in its belief in the possibility of grace. It is at once hard and forgiving, bitter and joyful, fanatical and serene. From "The Return Of The Prodigal Son. A New York Times book review by A. O. ScottI just dont know what I can say or add about this book. Really. It broke my heart and I loved it anyway.

I was not disappointed by Marilynne Robinson's third book. When one reads good literature, for instance, Cormac McCarthy, one is often struck by a turn of phrase or a passage. "How aptly and poetically written," one thinks. This happens rarely with Robinson, because her prose lead us perfectly into the characters' lives. So it is only in hindsight that one identifies her prose as beautiful, and this only because one thinks of the story itself as true in the sense that truth causes one to feel

Home is set in Gilead, Iowa, of the sunflowers. It tells the story of greying children taking care of their ancient father. Glory, aged 38, the youngest of 6 children, returned home to live with her father, the Reverend Robert Boughton, after her marriage fell apart. Her brother, Jack, who had a reputation of being a scoundrel also returned home from his wandering and bitterness after 20 years. Both were unprepared to encounter a father so sad and old. Robinson wrote with empathic appreciation

Is it 'even' POSSIBLE-- that this is one of the BEST FICTION BOOKS ever written about what HOME represents in our lives?/!!! -- the good- the bad- and the ugly? ( even those last three words don't really fit-but it communicates quickly for 'short-review' purposes). "HOME IS WHERE THE HEART IS".....( not always)"YOU CAN NEVER RETURN HOME"....( sometimes you can)HOME....has a deep emotional meaning and our memories of....love, life, family opinions and feeling, anger, grief, regrets, betrayal,

Is it 'even' POSSIBLE-- that this is one of the BEST FICTION BOOKS ever written about what HOME represents in our lives?/!!! -- the good- the bad- and the ugly? ( even those last three words don't really fit-but it communicates quickly for 'short-review' purposes). "HOME IS WHERE THE HEART IS".....( not always)"YOU CAN NEVER RETURN HOME"....( sometimes you can)HOME....has a deep emotional meaning and our memories of....love, life, family opinions and feeling, anger, grief, regrets, betrayal,

This 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