Gilead

A Novel

BY MARILYNNE ROBINSON
Twenty-four years after her first novel, Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson returns with an intimate tale of three generations from the Civil War to the twentieth century: a story about fathers and sons and the spiritual battles that still rage at America's heart. Writing in the tradition of Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman, Marilynne Robinson's beautiful, spare, and spiritual prose allows "even the faithless reader to feel the possibility of transcendent order" (Slate). In the luminous and unforgettable voice of Congregationalist minister John Ames, Gilead reveals the human condition and the often unbearable beauty of an ordinary life.

Picador 2006 256 PP. Paper

$14.00 (in stock)

Home - A Novel

BY MARILYNNE ROBINSON
Companion to Robinson's "Gilead", "Home" takes place concurrently in the same town, this time in the household of Rev. Robert Boughton. Glory Boughton has returned to Gilead to care for her dying father. Her brother, Jack - the family's prodigal son, gone for 20 years - comes home too, looking for refuge and trying to make peace with a past littered with trouble. A ne'er do-well, Jack still remains Boughton's most beloved child. Brilliant, lovable, & wayward, Jack forges an intense bond with Glory and engages painfully with his godfather & namesake. "Home" is a moving & healing book about families, family secrets, and passing generations, about love & death & faith.

Picador 2009 325 PP. Paper

$14.00 (in stock)