Home [sound recording] / Marilynne Robinson and read by Maggi-Meg Reed.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781427205100
- ISBN: 1427205108
- Physical Description: 10 sound discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
- Publisher: New York : Macmillan Audiobook /Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2008.
Content descriptions
General Note: | "Executive producer Laura Wilson ; produced by Paul Ruben"--Disc. Compact disc. |
Summary, etc.: | Glory Boughton, aged thirty-eight, has returned to Gilead to care for her dying father. Soon her brother, Jack--the prodigal son of the family, gone for twenty years--comes home too, looking for refuge and trying to make peace with a past littered with tormenting trouble and pain. |
Awards Note: | Orange Prize for Fiction, 2009. |
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Subject: | Fathers and daughters > Fiction. Conflict of generations > Fiction. Reminiscing > Fiction. Children of clergy > Fiction. Clergy > Fiction. Iowa > Fiction. |
Genre: | Audiobooks. Domestic fiction. Christian fiction. |
Available copies
- 3 of 3 copies available at Bibliomation.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 3 total copies.
Other Formats and Editions
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Beekley Community Library - New Hartford | CDBOOK F ROBINSON, M. (Text) | 32544072313264 | Adult Fiction CD | Available | - |
North Branch - Bridgeport | TCD ROBINSON (Text) | 34000074964131 | Adult Fiction CD | Available | - |
Slater Public Library - Griswold | BCD ROB (Text) | 31252140611518 | Adult Fiction CD | Available | - |
Author Notes
Home : A Novel
Marilynne Robinson's first novel, Housekeeping, won the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. Her other novels include Mother Country and Lila. Gilead won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award and Home won the Orange Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Her nonfiction books include When I Was a Child I Read Books, Absence of Mind, and The Death of Adam. She was the recipient of a 2012 National Humanities Medal, awarded by President Barack Obama. She received the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction in 2016. She has been named the winner of the Richard C Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award as part of the 2016 Dayton Literary Peace Prize. She was included on Time magazine's annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world. (Bowker Author Biography)