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Home: Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction
Marilynne Robinson
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WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2009
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Jack Boughton - prodigal son - has been gone twenty years. He returns home seeking refuge and to make peace with the past. 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, though he remains Boughton's most beloved child. His sister Glory has also returned, fleeing her own mistakes, to care for their dying father. A moving book about families, about love and death and faith, Home is unforgettable. It is a masterpiece.
'One of the greatest living novelists' BRYAN APPLEYARD, SUNDAY TIMES
'A luminous, profound and moving piece of writing. There is no contemporary American novelist whose work I would rather read' MICHAEL ARDITTI, INDEPENDENT
'Her novels are replete with a sense of felt life, with a deep and abiding sympathy for her characters and a full understanding of their inner lives' COLM TOIBIN
'Utterly haunting' JANE SHILLING, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
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Praise for Home: Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction
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brilliantly done and deeply moving - Sun-Herald Robinson brings us closer to Jack and Glory, and to the flaws in their inheritance. As a result, it's a richer, more open and encompassing book than Gilead with devastating momentum and uncanny brilliance, the novel marches towards its powerful conclusion - The Age Rich with the same humane, generous wisdom - Sydney Morning Herald Home is rich, deep and wide, pretty much perfect for a perceptive reading group because it is so teasingly uncompromising in the way it lays out characters for us to examine without itself judging - Weekend Australian The last few pages of Home are among the saddest I have read, and yet the most uplifting - Good Reading
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