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Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction

Zusatztext This is certainly a novel about faith and love. However! it is also a meditation on doubt and fear . . . There is both a subtlety and a simplicity about her most powerful themes. She asserts the elusiveness of perfection! the foolishness of sever self-ju Informationen zum Autor Marilynne Robinson was born in 1947. Her first novel, Housekeeping (1981) received the PEN/Hemingway award for best first novel as well as being nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Her second novel, GILEAD, won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction Klappentext Shortlisted for the Orange Prize 2009. Thousands of readers were enthralled and delighted by GILEAD! Marilynne Robinson's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Now comes HOME! a deeply affecting novel that takes place in the same period and same Iowa town of GILEAD. Jack - prodigal son of the Boughton family! gone twenty years - has come home looking for refuge and to try to make peace with a past littered with trouble and pain. A bad boy from childhood! an alcoholic who cannot hold down a job! Jack is perpetually at odds with his surroundings and with his traditionalist father. Vorwort From the author of the magnificent, award-winning Gilead comes a masterpiece novel that returns to the people and places of Gilead. Zusammenfassung Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction

This is certainly a novel about faith and love. However, it is also a meditation on doubt and fear . . . There is both a subtlety and a simplicity about her most powerful themes. She asserts the elusiveness of perfection, the foolishness of sever self-ju

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Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction

Autorentext
Marilynne Robinson was born in 1947. Her first novel, Housekeeping (1981) received the PEN/Hemingway award for best first novel as well as being nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Her second novel, GILEAD, won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction

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Shortlisted for the Orange Prize 2009. Thousands of readers were enthralled and delighted by GILEAD, Marilynne Robinson's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Now comes HOME, a deeply affecting novel that takes place in the same period and same Iowa town of GILEAD. Jack - prodigal son of the Boughton family, gone twenty years - has come home looking for refuge and to try to make peace with a past littered with trouble and pain. A bad boy from childhood, an alcoholic who cannot hold down a job, Jack is perpetually at odds with his surroundings and with his traditionalist father.

Zusammenfassung
Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction