by Marilynne Robinson · Virago Press Ltd · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781844085507
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«Home» is a contemporary fiction novel by Marilynne Robinson, published by Virago Press in paperback (352 pages, in English).
Jack Boughton, the prodigal son of the Boughtons, returns to Gilead, Iowa, after twenty years of absence seeking refuge and peace with his past. Glory, Jack's sister, comes back to the family home to care for their ailing father; together, amid secrets and old wounds, they try to reconcile with their history in a novel about love, faith and family.
«Home» belongs to the Gilead series, of which it is the second instalment, and won the Women's Prize for Fiction 2009.
An option for reading groups and for readers of literary fiction focused on family and faith.
Marilynne Summers Robinson is an American novelist and essayist. Across her writing career, Robinson has received numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2005, National Humanities Medal in 2012, and the 2016 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction. In 2016, Robinson was named in Time magazine's list of 100 most influential people. Robinson began teaching at the Iowa Writers' Workshop in 1991 and retired in the spring of 2016.
