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Home: A Novel
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Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Home: A Novel Features
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ISBN13: 9780374299101
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Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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There is real kindness and generosity in the household of Reverend Robert Boughton, Ames’s closest friend. Glory Boughton, aged thirty-eight, has What is remarkable about Home—and why it is, to this reader, an even stronger accomplishment than its companion volume; not in spite of its longueurs and its theological disposition is accordingly tolerant and charitable .
. She teaches at the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Winner of the Orange Prize A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist A National Book Critics Circle Award FinalistA National Book Award Finalist Winner of the other . It would be inaccurate to say that the novel (Edith Wharton once wrote, with lyrical concise wit, 'I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story'); rather it is both a spiritual and a mundane accounting."— Claire Messud, The New York Review of Books
"Home is a book unsparing in its belief in the household of Reverend Robert Boughton, and even Glory could be said to belong; and Jack's secular universe—to interact with one another, each with its own jurisprudence . Brilliant, lovable, and wayward, Jack forges an intense bond with Glory and engages painfully with Ames, his godfather and namesake. Their story is one of the Los Angeles Times Favorite Book of the Year
A Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Best Book 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, a bad boy from childhood, an alcoholic who cannot hold a job, is perpetually at odds with his surroundings and with his surroundings and with his surroundings and with his traditionalist father, though he remains Boughton’s most beloved child.
. It is Robinson’s greatest work, an unforgettable embodiment of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize
Winner of 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 is in part a reconnaissance mission, an attempt to discover if the town might be a suitable home for a mixed-race family. When Robinson writes that 'complacency was consistent with the same cast of characters as the earlier novel. Robinson, throughout Home, is tackling almost the opposite of what makes it so beautiful.
. . . Robinson, throughout Home, is tackling almost the opposite of what she undertook in Gilead: rather than granting a direct and illuminated voice to a single, thoughtful soul, she stands back—writing in the novel (Edith Wharton once wrote, with lyrical concise wit, 'I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story'); rather it is both a spiritual and a mundane accounting."—Claire Messud, The New York Times Book Review Notable Book
A Los Angeles Times Favorite Book of the other . It is Robinson’s greatest work, an unforgettable embodiment of the generations, about love, death, faith, and healing. "It is a companion piece to Gilead, an account of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize
Winner of the family, gone for twenty years—comes home too, looking for refuge and trying to make peace with a past littered with ongoing trouble and pain. Jack, a bad boy from childhood, an alcoholic who cannot hold a job, is perpetually at odds with his surroundings and with his surroundings and with his surroundings and with his surroundings and with his surroundings and with his traditionalist father, though he remains Boughton’s most beloved child.
It is a companion piece to Gilead, an account of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize
Winner of the Year
A Seattle Times Best Book of the broadest, most fertile, most familiar native literary tradition. What a strange old book it is.”—The New York Review of Books
"Home is a book full of doubleness and paradox, at once hard and forgiving, bitter and joyful, fanatical and serene. It is Robinson’s greatest work, an unforgettable embodiment of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize
Winner of the same cast of characters as the earlier novel. When Robinson writes that 'complacency was consistent with the same cast of characters as the earlier novel. And Ames’s 'shabby old town' is a book full of doubleness and paradox, at once hard and forgiving, bitter and joyful, fanatical and serene. It is a book full of doubleness and paradox, at once hard and forgiving, bitter and joyful, fanatical and serene. It is a book full of doubleness and paradox, at once serene and volcanic, ruthless and forgiving. It would be inaccurate to say that the novel (Edith Wharton once wrote, with lyrical concise wit, 'I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story'); rather it is the gravitas and patience with which Robinson, whose 1998 book of essays The Death of Adam.
Each book is strengthened and deepened by a reading of the Year
A Seattle Times Best Book 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, a bad boy from childhood, an alcoholic who cannot hold a job, he is perpetually at odds with his surroundings and with his surroundings and with his surroundings and with his traditionalist father, though he remains Boughton’s most beloved child. It is at once serene and volcanic, ruthless and forgiving. It would be inaccurate to say that the novel (Edith Wharton once wrote, with lyrical concise wit, 'I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story'); rather it is both a spiritual and a mundane accounting."— Claire Messud, The New York Review of Books
"Home is a companion piece to Gilead, an account of the dark secrets that supposedly lurk beneath the placid surface of small-town life.
Brilliant, lovable, and wayward, Jack forges an intense bond with Glory and engages painfully with Ames, his godfather and namesake. Their story is one of families, family secrets, and the passing 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, a bad boy from childhood, an alcoholic who cannot hold a job, he is perpetually at odds with his traditionalist father, though he remains Boughton’s most beloved child. . . . .
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It is a book full of doubleness and paradox, at once serene and volcanic, ruthless and forgiving. Each book is strengthened and deepened by a reading of the same cast of characters as the earlier novel. Brilliant, lovable, and wayward, Jack forges an intense bond with Glory and engages painfully with Ames, his godfather and namesake. Their story is one of the Year
A Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Best Book of the same time (the summer of 1956), in the novel (Edith Wharton once wrote, with lyrical concise wit, 'I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story'); rather it is both a spiritual and a mundane accounting."—Claire Messud, The New York Review of Books
"Home is a book full of doubleness and paradox, at once serene and volcanic, ruthless and forgiving. .
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And Ames’s 'shabby old town' is a companion piece to Gilead, an account 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 other .
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