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The novel chronicles the life of the Boughton family, specifically the father, Reverend Robert Boughton, and Glory and Jack, two of Robert's adult children who return home to Gilead, Iowa. A companion to Gilead , Home is an independent novel that takes place concurrently and examines some of the same events from a different angle.
Marilynne Summers Robinson (born November 26, 1943) [2] is an American novelist and essayist. Across her writing career, Robinson has received numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2005, National Humanities Medal in 2012, and the 2016 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction .
Gilead is a novel by Marilynne Robinson published in 2004. It won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award.It is Robinson's second novel, following Housekeeping (1980).
Housekeeping is a 1987 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Bill Forsyth, starring Christine Lahti, Sara Walker, and Andrea Burchill.Based on Marilynne Robinson's 1980 novel Housekeeping, it is about two young sisters growing up in Idaho in the 1950s.
The Two Faces of January is a 2014 thriller film written and directed by Hossein Amini, in his feature film directorial debut. It is based on Patricia Highsmith's 1964 novel The Two Faces of January and stars Viggo Mortensen, Kirsten Dunst and Oscar Isaac. Filming took place on location in Greece and Turkey, and at Ealing Studios in London.
Two lives turned toward one another June and Jennifer were born in 1963 to Barbadian parents who raised the girls and their three siblings in the U.K.: first in England and then in Wales.
Housekeeping is a 1980 novel by Marilynne Robinson.The novel was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and awarded the PEN/Hemingway Award for best first novel.. In 2003, Guardian Unlimited named Housekeeping one of the 100 greatest novels of all time, [1] describing the book as "Haunting, poetic story, drowned in water and light, about three generations of women."
Faces is a 1968 American drama film written, produced, and directed by John Cassavetes—his fourth directorial work. [2] It depicts, shot in cinéma vérité -style, the final stages of the disintegrating marriage of a middle-aged couple, played by John Marley and newcomer Lynn Carlin .