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From one of the English language's great writers. Revisiting her beloved characters, Jack joins Gilead, winner of the Pulitzer; Home, winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction and Lila, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award. This is the compassionate and heart-breaking story of the beloved and wayward son, Jack Boughton.
Marilynne Robinson, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Women's Fiction Prize, the National Book Critics Prize and and The American National Humanities Medal,returns to the world of Gilead with Jack, the final novel in one of the great works of contemporary American fiction.
Setting her novel in the time just before Gilead, Home and Lila, after World War II, JACK is John Ames Boughton's book.
The grieved-over prodigal son, a drunkard and a ne'er-do-well has left home for St Louis. In that segregated city Jack falls in love with an African-American high school teacher, also a preacher's child. Della Miles is a woman with a discriminating mind, a generous spirit and an independent will.
JACK is their fraught and beautiful love story .
Never has Marilynne Robinson's compassion, wisdom and wit been so beautifully employed
as in her portrayl of this wayward, much-loved son.
'Grace and intelligence . . . [her work] defines universal truths about what it means to be human' Barack Obama
'Jack is the fourth in Robinson's luminous, profound Gilead series and perhaps the best yet' Observer
'Radiant and visionary' Sarah Perry, Guardian
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.
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
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.
