Home

A HarperCollins Canada first Canadian edition, first printing hardcover in fine condition. Boards are clean, bright, and like-new throughout, with absolutely no wear to the spine, corners, or edges. Dust jacket is bright, crisp, and undamaged, fine in all respects with no tears, chips, fading, or soiling. Pages are fresh and clean throughout, completely free of any marks, stamps, or annotations. Binding is firm and tight. A pristine, essentially unread copy in fine condition throughout. Published by HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, Toronto, in 2008, this first Canadian edition, first printing hardcover of Home is the first printing of the Canadian edition of one of the most celebrated American novels of the decade. Winner of the 2009 Orange Prize for Fiction (now the Women's Prize for Fiction) and the 2008 Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and a finalist for the National Book Award, Home is the third novel in Marilynne Robinson's Gilead cycle — companion to Gilead (2004), winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Narrated by Glory Boughton, youngest daughter of the ailing Reverend Robert Boughton, the novel unfolds alongside the events of Gilead as Glory and her prodigal brother Jack return to their childhood home in Iowa, each carrying the weight of lives that have not gone as hoped. A novel of extraordinary stillness, moral precision, and compassion, written by one of the finest prose stylists in contemporary American fiction. Martin Scorsese has announced plans to adapt the novel as a feature film. Ships within Canada. International orders welcome through AbeBooks.