![]() ![]() Its meanings are complex, at times contradictory. If anything, the word “old” pops up even more frequently in “Home” - a third-person retelling of many of the events in “Gilead” seen through the eyes of 38-year-old Glory Boughton - than it did in the earlier book. ![]() I say ‘old Boughton,’ I say ‘this shabby old town,’ and I mean that they are very near my heart.”Īmes, an important figure in Robinson’s new novel, “Home,” is also, at least in this passage, allowing his creator to speak through him, and to acknowledge with some slyness a tic of her own remarkable literary style. Sometimes it suggests haplessness or vulnerability. It sets a thing apart as something regarded with a modest, habitual affection. John Ames, admits that he has a tendency “to overuse the word ‘old.’ ” This habit, he muses, “has less to do with age. Early in Marilynne Robinson’s “Gilead,” one of the few recent American novels that have found and deserved both critical praise and readerly love, the narrator, the Rev. ![]()
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