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- Author Marilynne Robinson
- Narrator Maggi-Meg Reed
- Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
- Run Time 12 hours and 45 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Modern and contemporary fiction.
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What to expect
Bryan Appleyard, Sunday Times
Jack Boughton - prodigal son - has been gone twenty years. He returns home seeking refuge and to make peace with the past. A bad boy from childhood, an alcoholic who cannot hold down a job, Jack is perpetually at odds with his surroundings and with his traditionalist father, though he remains Boughton's most beloved child. His sister Glory has also returned, fleeing her own mistakes, to care for their dying father.
A moving book about families, about love and death and faith, Home is unforgettable. It is a masterpiece.
'A luminous, profound and moving piece of writing. There is no contemporary American novelist whose work I would rather read'
Michael Arditti, Independent
'In an age when books must shout to be heard above the cacophony, the success of Marilynne Robinson - indeed, the existence of this writer - is a lovely miracle'
Weekend Australian
'So finely wrought ... Utterly haunting. '
Jane Shilling, Sunday Telegraph
Critics Review
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…a country of mystical sunsets, abandoned shacks, storms that could have come out of the book of Job, snowstorms that that can take your life within a few feet of your own front door, and wild rivers in which one can be baptized. I said Marilynne Robinson’s prose was like clear, cold water and so it is – and sometimes it is about water too – you are never far from its cleansing, chilly power, or from the mysterious rush of the wind, sounding like the ocean in a region impossibly far from any sea.
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Her poetic, almost biblical style of writing…flows like clear cold water and is full of quiet power while remaining oddly conversational… People say they love these books, and I can see why. Quite how they can do so without discerning within them a serious, deep, patient but modest defence of the Christian proposition, I do not know.
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