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Author |
: Marilynne Robinson |
Publisher |
: Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages |
: 256 |
Release |
: 2014-10-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780374709082 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0374709084 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (82 Downloads) |
Synopsis Lila (Oprah's Book Club) by : Marilynne Robinson
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award National Book Award Finalist A new American classic from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gilead and Housekeeping Marilynne Robinson, one of the greatest novelists of our time, returns to the town of Gilead in an unforgettable story of a girlhood lived on the fringes of society in fear, awe, and wonder. Lila, homeless and alone after years of roaming the countryside, steps inside a small-town Iowa church-the only available shelter from the rain-and ignites a romance and a debate that will reshape her life. She becomes the wife of a minister, John Ames, and begins a new existence while trying to make sense of the life that preceded her newfound security. Neglected as a toddler, Lila was rescued by Doll, a canny young drifter, and brought up by her in a hardscrabble childhood. Together they crafted a life on the run, living hand to mouth with nothing but their sisterly bond and a ragged blade to protect them. Despite bouts of petty violence and moments of desperation, their shared life was laced with moments of joy and love. When Lila arrives in Gilead, she struggles to reconcile the life of her makeshift family and their days of hardship with the gentle Christian worldview of her husband which paradoxically judges those she loves. Revisiting the beloved characters and setting of Robinson's Pulitzer Prize-winning Gilead and Home, a National Book Award finalist, Lila is a moving expression of the mysteries of existence that is destined to become an American classic.
Author |
: Marilynne Robinson |
Publisher |
: Harper Perennial |
Total Pages |
: 336 |
Release |
: 2009-09-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1554681227 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781554681228 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (27 Downloads) |
Synopsis Home by : Marilynne Robinson
Glory Boughton 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 torment and pain. A troubled boy from childhood, an alcoholic who cannot hold a job, Jack is one of the great characters in recent literature. He is perpetually at odds with his surroundings and with his traditionalist father, though he remains Reverend Boughton’s most beloved child. Brilliant, beguiling, lovable and wayward, Jack forges an intense new bond with Glory and engages painfully with John Ames, his godfather and namesake. Home is a moving and healing book about families, family secrets and the passing of the generations, about love and death and faith. It is arguably Marilynne Robinson’s greatest work, an unforgettable embodiment of the deepest and most universal emotions.
Author |
: Marilynne Robinson |
Publisher |
: Hachette UK |
Total Pages |
: 297 |
Release |
: 2020-09-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780349011783 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0349011788 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (83 Downloads) |
Synopsis Jack by : Marilynne Robinson
'[Her work] defines universal truths about what it means to be human' Barack Obama 'Marilynne Robinson is one of the greatest writers of our time' Sunday Times 'Jack is the fourth in Robinson's luminous, profound Gilead series and perhaps the best yet' Observer Marilynne Robinson, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the American National Humanities Medal, returns to the world of Gilead with Jack, the final in one of the great works of contemporary American fiction. Jack tells the story of John Ames Boughton, the loved and grieved-over prodigal son of a Presbyterian minister in Gilead, Iowa, a drunkard and a ne'er-do-well. In segregated St. Louis sometime after World War II, Jack falls in love with Della Miles, an African-American high school teacher, also a preacher's child, with a discriminating mind, a generous spirit and an independent will. Their fraught, beautiful story is one of Robinson's greatest achievements.
Author |
: Sue Miller |
Publisher |
: Ballantine Books |
Total Pages |
: 348 |
Release |
: 2002-11-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780345420749 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0345420748 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (49 Downloads) |
Synopsis While I Was Gone by : Sue Miller
The "New York Times" bestseller called "quietly gripping" by "USA Today" demonstrates how impulses can fracture even the most stable family. Despite her loving family and beautiful home, Jo Becker is restless. Then an old roommate reappears, bringing back Jo's memories of her early 20s. Jo's obsession with that period in her life--and the crime that ended it--draws her back to a horrible secret.
Author |
: Lalita Tademy |
Publisher |
: Grand Central Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 348 |
Release |
: 2001-04-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780759522428 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0759522421 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (28 Downloads) |
Synopsis Cane River by : Lalita Tademy
A New York Times bestseller and Oprah's Book Club Pick-the unique and deeply moving saga of four generations of African-American women whose journey from slavery to freedom begins on a Creole plantation in Louisiana. Beginning with her great-great-great-great grandmother, a slave owned by a Creole family, Lalita Tademy chronicles four generations of strong, determined black women as they battle injustice to unite their family and forge success on their own terms. They are women whose lives begin in slavery, who weather the Civil War, and who grapple with contradictions of emancipation, Jim Crow, and the pre-Civil Rights South. As she peels back layers of racial and cultural attitudes, Tademy paints a remarkable picture of rural Louisiana and the resilient spirit of one unforgettable family. There is Elisabeth, who bears both a proud legacy and the yoke of bondage... her youngest daughter, Suzette, who is the first to discover the promise-and heartbreak-of freedom... Suzette's strong-willed daughter Philomene, who uses a determination born of tragedy to reunite her family and gain unheard-of economic independence... and Emily, Philomene's spirited daughter, who fights to secure her children's just due and preserve their dignity and future. Meticulously researched and beautifully written, Cane River presents a slice of American history never before seen in such piercing and personal detail.
Author |
: Marilynne Robinson |
Publisher |
: Macmillan |
Total Pages |
: 349 |
Release |
: 2015-11-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781250060655 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1250060656 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (55 Downloads) |
Synopsis Housekeeping by : Marilynne Robinson
"The story of Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, who grow up haphazardly, first under the care of their competent grandmother, then of two comically bumbling great-aunts, and finally of Sylvie, the eccentric and remote sister of their dead mother. The family house is in the small town of Fingerbone on a glacial lake in the Far West, the same lake where their grandfather died in a spectacular train wreck and their mother drove off a cliff to her death. It is a town "chastened by an outsized landscape and extravagant weather, and chastened again by an awareness that the whole of human history had occurred elsewhere." Ruth and Lucille's struggle toward adulthood beautifully illuminates the price of loss and survival, and the dangerous and deep undertow of transience."--
Author |
: Mary McGarry Morris |
Publisher |
: Penguin |
Total Pages |
: 772 |
Release |
: 1996-08-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781101199473 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1101199474 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (73 Downloads) |
Synopsis Songs in Ordinary Time by : Mary McGarry Morris
It's the summer of 1960 in Atkinson, Vermont. Maria Fermoyle is a strong but vulnerable divorced woman whose loneliness and ambition for her children make her easy prey for dangerous con man Omar Duvall. Marie's children are Alice, seventeen—involved with a young priest; Norm, sixteen—hotheaded and idealistic; and Benny, twelve—isolated and misunderstood, and so desperate for his mother's happiness that he hides the deadly truth he knows about Duvall. We also meet Sam Fermoyle, the children's alcoholic father; Sam's brother-in-law, who makes anonymous "love" calls from the bathroom of his failing appliance store; and the Klubock family, who—in contrast to the Fermoyles—live an orderly life in the house next door. Songs in Ordinary Time is a masterful epic of the everyday, illuminating the kaleidoscope of lives that tell the compelling story of this unforgettably family.
Author |
: David Wroblewski |
Publisher |
: Bond Street Books |
Total Pages |
: 578 |
Release |
: 2009-03-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780307371898 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0307371891 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by : David Wroblewski
An Oprah's Book Club Pick A #1 New York Times Bestseller A National Bestseller Beautifully written and elegantly paced, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle is a coming-of-age novel about the power of the land and the past to shape our lives. It is a riveting tale of retribution, inhabited by empathic animals, prophetic dreams, second sight, and vengeful ghosts. Born mute, Edgar Sawtelle feels separate from the people around him but is able to establish profound bonds with the animals who share his home and his name: his family raises a fictional breed of exceptionally perceptive and affable dogs. Soon after his father's sudden death, Edgar is stunned to learn that his mother has already moved on as his uncle Claude quickly becomes part of their lives. Reeling from the sudden changes to his quiet existence, Edgar flees into the forests surrounding his Wisconsin home accompanied by three dogs. Soon he is caught in a struggle for survival—the only thing that will prepare him for his return home.
Author |
: M.B. Guel |
Publisher |
: Bella Books |
Total Pages |
: 162 |
Release |
: 2020-03-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781642471908 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1642471909 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (08 Downloads) |
Synopsis Queerleaders by : M.B. Guel
“Mack snuck a look over her shoulder at the cheerleaders just as Veronica took her place at the top of the pyramid. Time seemed to slow as Veronica swung her long, blond ponytail over her shoulder, pompoms high in the air…” Mackenzie is used to being different from other kids—and to being bullied for not fitting into the rigid social expectations of her Catholic high school. Luckily, Mack’s best friend Lila has her back so school isn’t the total hell it could be. But it’s pretty damn close. Until something very mysterious happens—Mack becomes a cheerleader magnet. Even she has a hard time believing it. And Lila is not too happy about her friend’s sudden popularity with the cool kids. Is Mack being set up for an epic fail? Or is she finally headed for acceptance–and maybe even romance…
Author |
: Marilynne Robinson |
Publisher |
: Virago Press |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2024-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0349008582 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780349008585 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (82 Downloads) |
Synopsis Lila by : Marilynne Robinson