Jack (Oprah's Book Club) Jack (Oprah's Book Club)
Book 4 - The Gilead Novels

Jack (Oprah's Book Club‪)‬

A Novel

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Publisher Description

A New York Times bestseller

Named a Best Book of 2020 by the Australian Book Review, AV Club, Books-a-Million, Electric Literature, Esquire, the Financial Times, Good Housekeeping (UK), The Guardian, Kirkus Reviews, Literary Hub, the New Statesman, the New York Public Library, NPR, the Star Tribune, and TIME

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.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2020
September 29
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
320
Pages
PUBLISHER
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
SELLER
Macmillan
SIZE
3.9
MB

Customer Reviews

YayaNetski ,

Jack and Della

Once again a masterfully written story as told through the eyes of John Ames Boughton. Intricately woven scripture on religion and realize. Of personal struggle and acceptance in a non accepting world. A world that preaches love and equality but doesn’t practice it. Jack battles his own ‘ natural’ or ‘unnatural’ tendencies as he falls in love with Della . They realize the truth of their spirits’ connection in an impossible world.

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