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Title:
Home
Author:
Robinson, Marilynne
ISBN:
9780374299101
Edition:
1st ed.
Publication Information:
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008
Physical Description:
325 p. ; 22 cm
General Note:
Orange Prize for Fiction, 2009
Abstract:
Glory 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
Subject Term:
Subject:
| Fathers and daughters -- Fiction |
| Conflict of generations -- Fiction |
| Reminiscing -- Fiction |
| Children of clergy -- Fiction |
| Clergy -- Fiction |
| Iowa -- Fiction |
| Domestic fiction |
Summary:
Glory 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