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Home (Thorndike Press Large Print Core Series)
by Marilynne Robinson
from Thorndike Press

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• Large Print

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• Gilead revisited
  All the sons and daughters of the Rev. Boughton dutifully return home to Gilead for Thanksgiving and Christmas, submit to the family traditions, and then quickly leave again to pursue their own lives. All but one: Jack, the prodigal son, has not been heard from in twenty years. When he suddenly turns up in Gilead, he is surrounded by mystery: Where has he been all these years? What has he been doing? Why is he coming back now?
  His ailing, widowed father, whose patience and forbearance seem almost... more info

• Coming Home
  "What does it mean to come home?"
  Marilynne Robinson poses the question and her book suggests how complex that wish may be. Jack, the prodigal son and favored child of the 8 children of a small town minister in Iowa in the mid 1950s returns home after a 20 year flight. He is an alcoholic and a self proclaimed thief, who has spent time in jail and seems to exist via " the kindness of strangers" as another book memorably posits, as well as odd jobs and kind women.
  This is a book that freely uses... more info

• The Saddest Music in the World
  I have not read Marilynne Robinson's books, but after reading Home I intend to.
  Home is a languid, terribly sad, story about the relationship between a dutiful daughter, a prodigal son and a dying father. Glory, the daughter, hurt in love, has come home to care for her aging father in the town of Gilead. Into their life comes Jack, the son who has been missing for twenty years: the criminal son, the alcoholic son, and the son the father worried about for all those years. For one summer they try to... more info

• Work to read...........
  I was given this book for Christmas by my husband and 7 year old son and was only able to finish it from the desire not to hurt thier feelings. The only good part about it was the feeling of accomplishment I had for sticking it out and making it through to the end. One word.... B-O-R-I-N-G

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