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Audiobook 2 - The Gilead Novels

Home (Oprah's Book Club‪)‬

    • 3.1 • 112 Ratings
    • $19.99

    • $19.99

Publisher Description

Hundreds of thousands were enthralled by the luminous voice of John Ames in Gilead, Marilynne Robinson's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Home is an entirely independent, deeply affecting novel that takes place concurrently in the same locale, this time in the household of Reverend Robert Boughton, Ames's closest friend.

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.

Jack is one of the great characters in recent literature. A bad boy from childhood, an alcoholic who cannot hold a job, he is perpetually at odds with his surroundings and with his traditionalist father, though he remains Boughton's most beloved child. Brilliant, lovable, and wayward, Jack forges an intense bond with Glory and engages painfully with Ames, his godfather and namesake.

Home is a moving and healing book about families, family secrets, and the passing of the generations, about love and death and faith. It is Robinson's greatest work, an unforgettable embodiment of the deepest and most universal emotions.

GENRE
Fiction
NARRATOR
MR
Maggi-Meg Reed
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
12:45
hr min
RELEASED
2008
September 2
PUBLISHER
Macmillan Audio
SIZE
653.6
MB

Customer Reviews

Marcia in Downey ,

Slow, but good!

This is not a fast paced, suspenseful novel. It is a good, thoughtful human story. Excellent narration, not too many characters to keep track of. It is about family, relationships and human nature. Highly recommended for a good read.

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