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INITIAL_TITLE_SRCH:
Home
AUTHOR:
Robinson, Marilynne
ISBN:
9780374299101
EDITION:
1st ed.
PUBLICATION_INFO:
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008
PHYSICAL_DESC:
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:
| Fathers and daughters -- Fiction |
| Conflict of generations -- Fiction |
| Reminiscing -- Fiction |
| Children of clergy -- Fiction |
| Clergy -- Fiction |
| Iowa -- Fiction |
| Domestic fiction |
BIBSUMMARY:
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