A **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK - A NEW
YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR
NAMED A BEST OF THE YEAR BY: NPR, TIME, ESQUIRE, THE GUARDIAN, LIT
HUB, ELECTRIC LITERATURE, THE FINANCIAL TIMES, THE NEW YORK PUBLIC
LIBRARY.**
"With the sublime Jack, [Marilynne Robinson] resumes and deepens
her quest, extending it to the contemplation of race . . . There is
richness and depth at every turn."--O, the Oprah Magazine
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, 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.
