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Feb 26, 2016 · There are lot of characters coming to terms with things in “A Country Called Home.” There’s a single father whose ex-wife is an alcoholic and drug addict. The two married and had a child just out of high school, and now he’s working long hours to provide for his son and his mother, who is also an alcoholic.
Oct 6, 2009 · In what ways does the past seem to control, or at least influence, the present in A Country Called Home? How do the main characters try to repress or escape the pain of their pasts? What does the novel as a whole seem to be saying about the relationship between past and present?
Book Summary. It is 1960 when Thomas Deracotte and his pregnant wife, Helen, abandon a guaranteed future in upper-crust Connecticut and take off for a utopian adventure in the Idaho wilderness. They buy a farm sight unseen and find the buildings collapsed, the fields in ruins.
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In what ways does the past seem to control, or at least influence, the present in A Country Called Home? How do the main characters try to repress or escape the pain of their pasts? What does the novel as a whole seem to be saying about the relationship between past and present?
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Oct 6, 2009 · A Country Called Home offers an unflinching look at how dreams can go awry and at the pain human beings can both inflict and endure. Family life in particular is fraught with suffering in this story --- children are abused, neglected, and abandoned.
Jan 1, 2008 · It is 1960 when Thomas Deracotte and his pregnant wife, Helen, abandon a guaranteed future in upper-crust Connecticut and take off for a utopian adventure in the Idaho wilderness. They buy a farm sight unseen and find the buildings collapsed, the fields in ruins.
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Part One of the novel is preceded by an epigraph by John Gardner: “The fall from grace is endless.” Why would Barnes choose this quote? In what ways is A Country Called Home about the fall from grace? 3. How are the novel’s three main male characters—Thomas, Manny, and Lucas—alike? How has each been shaped by his past? 4.
