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Marilynne Robinson

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

2008

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Abstract

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.

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Details

Title: Subtitle: Home
Creators: Marilynne Robinson
Resource Type: Book
ISBN: 9780374299101; 0374299102
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux; New York
Format: 325 pages ; 22 cm
Number of pages: 325 pages
Language: English
Date published: 2008
Academic Unit: Writers’ Workshop
Record Identifier: 9985016022302771

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