Home (novel)

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name = Home
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image_caption = Cover of the first edition
author = Marilynne Robinson
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country = United States
language = English
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genre = Novel
publisher = Farrar, Straus and Giroux
release_date = September 2, 2008
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media_type = Print (Hardcover) & Audio book
pages = 336 pp
isbn = ISBN 0374299102
preceded_by = "Gilead"
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"Home" is a novel written by the Pulitzer Prize-winning American author Marilynne Robinson and was published in 2008. It is Robinson's third novel, preceded by "Housekeeping" in 1980 and "Gilead" in 2004.

The novel chronicles the life of the Boughton family, specifically the father, Reverend Robert Boughton, and Glory and Jack, two of Robert's adult children who return home to Gilead, Iowa. A companion to "Gilead", "Home" is an independent novel that takes place concurrently.

External links

* [http://us.macmillan.com/home Novel's description] at its publisher's website
* [http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2008/09/08/080908crbo_books_wood?currentPage=all Review of "Home" in "The New Yorker"] by James Wood, September 8, 2008
* [http://www.christianitytoday.com/books/features/bookwk/080908.html Review of "Home" in "Christianity Today"] by Linda McCullough Moore, September 8, 2008
* [http://movies.nytimes.com/2008/09/21/books/review/Scott-t.html?pagewanted=all Review of "Home" in "The New York Times"] by A. O. Scott, September 19, 2008
* [http://www.theparisreview.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/5863 Interview with Marilynne Robinson about her novels] in "The Paris Review", Fall 2008