$45.00 (Hardcover book / Virago / ISBN:9781844085491)
Home
Winner of the 2009 Orange Prize for Fiction.
Following on from the magnificent GILEAD, HOME takes up the story of the wayward son Jack who, after decades away, edgily and uneasily, but finally, returns home. He is the prodigal son and his family believe against all evidence , that if they love him enough, if they welcome him back, he will change and he will stay. But of course, that is not how life really goes… Marilynne Robinson’s understanding of the human heart, of how families operate, of how and why we continue to forgive and to hope, cuts right to the soul. She writes with wisdom, intelligence and generosity. She writes a masterpiece.
Marilynne Robinson
Housekeeping
$22.95 (Paperback book / Faber )
Housekeeping is the story of Ruth and Lucille, orphans growing up in the small desolate town of Fingerbone in the vast northwest of America. Abandoned by a succession of relatives, the sisters find themselves in the care... More »
Gilead (Audio CD)
$55.00 (Compact disc / Hachette )
In 1956, toward the end of Reverend John Ames's life, he begins a letter to his young son, a kind of last testament to his remarkable forebears.
'It is a book of such meditative calm, such spiritual intensity that is see... More »
Orange Prize for Fiction 2009 Longlist
