HOME
By Marilynne Robinson
Virago. £7.99
ISBN 978-1-84408-550-7
‘Utterly haunting’, ‘profound and moving’, ‘exquisitely measured’, say the critics.
Orange prize winner 2009, Home is a companion piece to Robinson’s Gilead, which won the Pulitzer Prize five years ago. It is set in 1940s Gilead, a fictional mid-western town, but focuses on the family of the Rev. Boughton, rather than the Rev. Ames. In this way Robinson explores from a very different perspective, and thus with a different tone, the history and attitudes of small town religious folk.
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