Robinson's slow prose is the star here, and narrator Adam Verner gives
great depth of emotion to Jack's raw suffering and ethical
dilemmas...Come for the love story; stay for a couple who learn to find
the beauty in broken humanity, and what grace can look like for those
who love each other. -- Booklist
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This program includes a bonus conversation with the author.**
Marilynne Robinson, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National
Humanities Medal, returns to the world of Gilead with Jack, the latest
novel in one of the great works of contemporary American fiction
Marilynne Robinson's mythical world of Gilead, Iowa--the setting of her
novels Gilead, Home, and Lila, and now Jack--and its beloved
characters have illuminated and interrogated the complexities of
American history, the power of our emotions, and the wonders of a sacred
world. Jack is Robinson's fourth novel in this now-classic series. In
it, Robinson tells the story of John Ames Boughton, the prodigal son of
Gilead's Presbyterian minister, and his romance with Della Miles, a high
school teacher who is also the child of a preacher. Their deeply felt,
tormented, star-crossed interracial romance resonates with all the
paradoxes of American life, then and now.
Robinson's Gilead novels, which have won one Pulitzer Prize and two
National Book Critics Circle Awards, are a vital contribution to
contemporary American literature and a revelation of our national
character and humanity.
A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux
