It is Robinsons greatest work, an unforgettable embodiment of the deepest and most universal emotions. The novel Home opens with Glory Boughton returning to her childhood home to care for her aging and ailing father. Home is a moving and healing book about families, family secrets, and the passing of the generations, about love and death and faith. Brilliant, lovable, and wayward, Jack forges an intense bond with Glory and engages painfully with Ames, his godfather and namesake. 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 Boughtons most beloved child. Jack is one of the great characters in recent literature. How dear the old place and the old stories were to them, and how far abroad they had scattered. Soon her brother, Jackthe prodigal son of the family, gone for twenty yearscomes home too, looking for refuge and trying to make peace with a past littered with tormenting trouble and pain. Jack had loved to come home, and how ready they always were to leave again. Glory Boughton, aged thirty-eight, has returned to Gilead to care for her dying father. Home by Marilynne Robinson is the story of two adult children who return home, coincidentally at the same time, who feel the shame of not living up to the. 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, Amess closest friend. Hundreds of thousands were enthralled by the luminous voice of John Ames in Gilead Marilynne Robinsons Pulitzer Prizewinning novel.
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