Home: A Novel
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.54 (761 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0312428545 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 336 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-04-22 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
The Reverend Boughton's hell-raising son, Jack, has come home after twenty years away. Home is a luminous and healing book about families, family secrets, and faith from one of America's most beloved and acclaimed authors.. WINNER OF THE ORANGE PRIZE 2009A 2008 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTWINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZEA New York Times Bestseller A Washington Post Best Book of the Year A Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year
Her wayward brother Jack also finds his way back, though his is an uneasy homecoming, reverberating with the scandal that drove him away twenty years earlier. Meanwhile, their father, whose ebullient love for his children is a welcome counterpoint to Glory and Jack's conflicted emotions, experiences his own kind of reckoning as he yearns to understand his troubled son. --Anne Bartholomew. It's a delicate sort of tension that you think would resist exposition--and in fact these characters seem to want nothing more than,
"Heart-wrenching, haunting, beautiful" according to D. Kanigan. This story is set in the 1950's in a small rural town in Iowa (Gilead). Robert Boughton, a retired and aging minister, is in poor health. Glory Boughton, Heart-wrenching, haunting, beautiful This story is set in the 1950's in a small rural town in Iowa (Gilead). Robert Boughton, a retired and aging minister, is in poor health. Glory Boughton, 38, his youngest daughter, has returned to Gilead to care for her dying father and to regroup after the failure of a longstanding relationship and the evaporation of her dreams of home, marriage and children."I am 38 years old, she would say to herself as she tidied up after supper. I have a master's degree. I taught high school English for 13 years. I was a good teacher. What have I done with my life? What ha. 8, his youngest daughter, has returned to Gilead to care for her dying father and to regroup after the failure of a longstanding relationship and the evaporation of her dreams of home, marriage and children."I am Heart-wrenching, haunting, beautiful This story is set in the 1950's in a small rural town in Iowa (Gilead). Robert Boughton, a retired and aging minister, is in poor health. Glory Boughton, 38, his youngest daughter, has returned to Gilead to care for her dying father and to regroup after the failure of a longstanding relationship and the evaporation of her dreams of home, marriage and children."I am 38 years old, she would say to herself as she tidied up after supper. I have a master's degree. I taught high school English for 13 years. I was a good teacher. What have I done with my life? What ha. 8 years old, she would say to herself as she tidied up after supper. I have a master's degree. I taught high school English for 1Heart-wrenching, haunting, beautiful This story is set in the 1950's in a small rural town in Iowa (Gilead). Robert Boughton, a retired and aging minister, is in poor health. Glory Boughton, 38, his youngest daughter, has returned to Gilead to care for her dying father and to regroup after the failure of a longstanding relationship and the evaporation of her dreams of home, marriage and children."I am 38 years old, she would say to herself as she tidied up after supper. I have a master's degree. I taught high school English for 13 years. I was a good teacher. What have I done with my life? What ha. years. I was a good teacher. What have I done with my life? What ha. Roger Brunyate said The Prodigal at Home. How simple it seems, that story of the Prodigal Son! The wanderer returns; his joyful father falls on his shoulder and orders the fatted calf to be killed; the stay-at-home sibling is resentful for a while, but presumably learns to deal with it. For the story stops there. There is no tomorrow. The Bible doesn't ask what happens in the weeks and months after that. Is the family happily reunited? Does the Prodigal never yearn to be off again? Where does life go from here? These are some of the many questions posed by Marilynne Robinson in her latest novel, HOME, . Theologically Disappointing I read GILEAD some time ago, and recently read LILA. As a result of loving LILA, I completed the trilogy by reading HOME. Of the three, it is my least favorite. There were by far too many examples of Jack's unhappiness and questions about his past before the truth, such as it was, came out for the reader. His great need for acceptance, forgiveness, repentance did not need so many pages of hesitation.I kept waiting for SOMEONE to give this poor man the gospel. No one ever did. Reverend Boughton had spent so many years grieving and praying for his prodigal son th