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By: Marilynne Robinson.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux; Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 325
ISBN-13: 9780374299101
Subjects: Fathers and daughters -- Fiction; Conflict of generations -- Fiction; Reminiscing -- Fiction; Children of clergy -- Fiction; Clergy -- Fiction; Iowa -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
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; National Book Award Finalist 2008; Washington Post Best Book of the Year; Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year; San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year.