Jack

'[Her work] defines universal truths about what it means to be human' Barack Obama'Marilynne Robinson is one of the greatest writers of our time' Sunday Times 'Jack is the fourth in Robinson's luminous, profound Gilead series and perhaps the best yet' Observer 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.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. Our Booksellers Say... "Marilynne Robinson writes like no one else: her sentences are quietly mesmerising, sometimes quietly devastating. This is a poignant examination of faithlessnes, faithfulness and the desire for faith (if any writer is going to convert me, it will be Robinson)." Emily, Bookseller (Broad Street) View all of Emily's recommendations

ISBN:	9780349011790
Publisher:	Little, Brown
Imprint:	Virago
Published date:	15 Apr 2021
DEWEY:	813.54
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	307
Weight:	258g
Height:	127mm
Width:	196mm
Spine width:	33mm

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