Jack: a novel

Author: Robinson, Marilynne
Title: Jack: a novel
Publisher: New York: Farrer, Strauss & Giroux
Date: 2020
Pages: 309
ISBN13: 9780374279301
Readership level: General, Graduate & Faculty, Undergraduate
Genre: Fiction

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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.