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by Robinson, Marilynne

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1554681219
ISBN 13
9781554681211
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Toronto: Harpercollins Publishers. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2008. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth. 1554681219 . A Near Fine first printing of the first edition in alike dust-jacket showing little edgewear, signed by author Marilynne Robinson on the title page; Marilynne Robinson's third novel after Gilead, is an entirely independent novel that takes place concurrently in the same locale, in the household of Reverend Robert Boughton. Home is about families, family secrets, and the passing of the generations, about love and death and faith ; 8vo; [viii], 325, [3] pages; Signed by Author .

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On Nov 11 2014, CloggieDownunder said:
Home is the second book in the Gilead series by Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Marilynne Robinson, and is set in Gilead, Iowa at the same time as the first book. This book focusses on Reverend Robert Boughton (closest friend of Reverend John Ames), and his family. Thirty-eight-year-old Glory Boughton, with a failed engagement behind her, returns to Gilead to look after her ailing father, Robert. A letter arrives, and Glory worries about the effect it will have on her father: “…the note might really be from Jack, but upsetting somehow, written from a ward for the chronically vexatious, the terminally remiss”.

Eventually, her disreputable brother Jack, an unemployed alcoholic, returns home after twenty years of virtual silence. Her father is pleased to see this favoured child again, one who went from “a restless, distant, difficult boy” to what Jack himself admits: “….nothing but trouble…….I create a kind of displacement around myself as I pass through the world, which can fairly be called trouble”. Jack is not the only one with secrets in his past, and he and Glory form a bond. His reconnection with his godfather and namesake, Reverend John Ames does not proceed smoothly.

They think back on their youth in the family home: “Experience had taught them that truth has sharp edges and hard corners, and could be seriously at odds with kindness” and “…lying in that family meant only that the liar would appreciate discretion…..as a matter of courtesy they treated one another’s deceptions like truth, which was a different thing from deceiving, or being deceived”. Glory is less than pleased to be in Gilead and dreads the thought of spending the rest of her days there: “To have [the past] overrun its bounds this way and become present and possibly future, too – they all knew this was a thing to be regretted”

Robinson treats the reader to some marvellous descriptive prose: “Their father said if they could see as God can, in geological time, they would see it leap out of the ground and turn in the sun and spread it arms and bask in the joys of being an oak tree in Iowa”. She touches on the question of racial prejudice and also includes some hints about the life Lila led before Gilead, a subject expanded on in the third book in this series. While this novel is somewhat slow in places, it is a stirring read and the final pages will move many readers to tears.

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Bookseller
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Bookseller's Inventory #
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Title
Home - 1st Edition/1st Printing
Author
Robinson, Marilynne
Format/Binding
Cloth
Book Condition
Used - Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Edition
First Edition; First Printing
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 10
1554681219
ISBN 13
9781554681211
Publisher
Harpercollins Publishers
Place of Publication
Toronto
Date Published
2008
Keywords
Collectible Rare Out-Of-Print, C2014VM0228S

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