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By: Marilynne Robinson
Publisher: Virago
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 325
ISBN-13: 9781844085491; 9781844085507
Subjects: Families; Fiction; Fathers and daughters; Children of clergy; Sons; Conflict of generations; Clergy; Family relationships
Description: 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.
Notes: Orange Prize for Fiction, 2009.