Jack A Novel (Gilead #4) [J0233]

2020 - HCDJ Nice clean condition. 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.

From recent Amazon/GoodReads reviews: "A quiet and poignant end to the Gilead quartet. I still love Lila best, but this shows the world from Jack's pov and his wrestling with his alcoholism and relationship with Della."; "Jack is the most lyrical and thorny and dense of them."; "What a wonderful, complicated love story! It's one in which you're pulling for both sides, but together? In line with the prior three books, it's one that touches on so much more than a single read does justice; there are so many tensions and questions and thoughts to ponder!"