The Resource Home, Marilynne Robinson
Home, Marilynne Robinson
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The item Home, Marilynne Robinson represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Coweta Public Library System.This item is available to borrow from 2 library branches. This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
Resource Information
The item Home, Marilynne Robinson represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Coweta Public Library System.
This item is available to borrow from 2 library branches.
This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
- Summary
- 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
- Language
- eng
- Label
- Home
- Title
- Home
- Statement of responsibility
- Marilynne Robinson
- Subject
-
- trueReminiscing in old age
- trueFaith (Christianity)
- trueFamilies
- trueFamily secrets
- trueFathers and daughters
- Fathers and daughters -- Fiction
- trueFathers and sons
- trueGeneration gap
- trueGentle reads
- trueHomecomings
- trueIowa
- Iowa -- Fiction
- trueLiterary fiction
- Reminiscing -- Fiction
- true1950s -- 1950 -- 1959
- trueAlcoholic men
- trueBrothers and sisters
- trueChildren of clergy
- Children of clergy -- Fiction
- Christian fiction
- trueClergy
- Clergy -- Fiction
- Conflict of generations -- Fiction
- trueDomestic fiction
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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
- Summary
- Returning to Gilead to care for her dying father, Glory Boughton is joined by her long-absent brother, with whom she bonds throughout his struggles with alcoholism, unemployment, and their father's traditionalist values
- Award
-
- Library Journal Best Books, 2008.
- Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction, 2008.
- New York Times Notable Book, 2008
- Orange Prize for Fiction, 2009.
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 266115
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Robinson, Marilynne
- Dewey number
- 813.54
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Fathers and daughters
- Conflict of generations
- Reminiscing
- Children of clergy
- Clergy
- Iowa
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Home, Marilynne Robinson
- Dimensions
- 22 cm.
- Extent
- 325 p.
- Isbn
- 9780374299101
- Isbn Type
- (hardcover : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2008018301
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) o213300725
- (OCoLC)213300725
- Label
- Home, Marilynne Robinson
- Dimensions
- 22 cm.
- Extent
- 325 p.
- Isbn
- 9780374299101
- Isbn Type
- (hardcover : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2008018301
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) o213300725
- (OCoLC)213300725
Subject
- trueReminiscing in old age
- trueFaith (Christianity)
- trueFamilies
- trueFamily secrets
- trueFathers and daughters
- Fathers and daughters -- Fiction
- trueFathers and sons
- trueGeneration gap
- trueGentle reads
- trueHomecomings
- trueIowa
- Iowa -- Fiction
- trueLiterary fiction
- Reminiscing -- Fiction
- true1950s -- 1950 -- 1959
- trueAlcoholic men
- trueBrothers and sisters
- trueChildren of clergy
- Children of clergy -- Fiction
- Christian fiction
- trueClergy
- Clergy -- Fiction
- Conflict of generations -- Fiction
- trueDomestic fiction
Genre
Included in
- trueNew York Times Notable Books - Fiction and Poetry: 2008
- trueLos Angeles Times Book Prizes: Fiction
- trueLibrary Journal Best Books: 2008
- trueWomen's Prize for Fiction
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