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Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction, Nominiert: IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2010, Ausgezeichnet: Orange Prize 2009
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Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction
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Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction
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Shortlisted for the Orange Prize 2009. Thousands of readers were enthralled and delighted by GILEAD, Marilynne Robinson's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Now comes HOME, a deeply affecting novel that takes place in the same period and same Iowa town of GILEAD. Jack - prodigal son of the Boughton family, gone twenty years - has come home looking for refuge and to try to make peace with a past littered with trouble and pain. 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.
Autoren-Porträt von Marilynne Robinson
Marilynne Robinson was born in 1947. Her first novel, Housekeeping (1981) received the PEN/Hemingway award for best first novel as well as being nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Her second novel, GILEAD, won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction
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- Autor: Marilynne Robinson
- 2009, 339 Seiten, Maße: 12,7 x 19,9 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Little, Brown Book Group
- ISBN-10: 1844085503
- ISBN-13: 9781844085507
- Erscheinungsdatum: 16.04.2009
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Englisch
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Her fiction attends with rapt attention to the "dear ordinary" breathing fresh air into the long-standing debates of American Protestantism Kasia Boddy, DAILY TELEGRAPH 'A quietly moving novel of faith and forgiveness. Amber Pearson, DAILY MAIL 'So finely wrought as to make the work of her more productive contemporaries seem tawdry by comparison ... The cadences of her prose have a resonant authority more like that of a great music rather than language. The effect is utterly haunting. The bad news is that is makes all other writing seem jejune for ages afterwards Jane Shilling, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH This is certainly a novel about faith and love. However, it is also a meditation on doubt and fear ... There is both a subtlety and a simplicity about her most powerful themes. She asserts the elusiveness of perfection, the foolishness of sever self-ju HERALD
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