{"product_id":"copy-of-home-marilynne-robinson","title":"Home - Marilynne Robinson (Pre-Loved)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHome\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e parallels the story told in Robinson's Pulitzer Prize-winning \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eGilead.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e It is a moving and healing book about families, family secrets, and the passing of the generations, about love and death and faith.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHundreds of thousands were enthralled by the luminous voice of John Ames in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eGilead,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Marilynne Robinson’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eHome\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGlory 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJack 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHome\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e--\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAmerican novelist and essayist. Across her writing career, \u003cstrong\u003eRobinson\u003c\/strong\u003e has received numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2005, National Humanities Medal in 2012, and the 2016 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Book Archive","offers":[{"title":"Pre-Loved - Visible Wear \u0026 Tear - Paperback","offer_id":45457579082045,"sku":"","price":3.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0709\/0831\/3917\/files\/81dTWk_ot9L._SL1500.jpg?v=1769462451","url":"https:\/\/thebookarchive.ca\/products\/copy-of-home-marilynne-robinson","provider":"The Book Archive","version":"1.0","type":"link"}