'[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.
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