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Title:

Jack

Author:

Robinson, Marilynne, author.

Series:

Gilead series ;

Series Number:

Summary:

"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." -- Publisher.

Edition:

Large print edition.

Physical Description:

461 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.

Genre:

Large type books.

Domestic fiction.

Christian fiction.

Subject Term:

Conflict of generations -- Fiction.

Children of clergy -- Fiction.

Fathers and sons -- Fiction.

Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.

Interracial dating -- Fiction.

Families -- Fiction.

Geographic Term:

Iowa -- Fiction.

Publisher:

Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company,

Publication Date:

2021

ISBN:

9781432890926

Publication Information:

Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2021.

Call Number:

LP ROBINSON

Holds: Copies:

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Item Barcode	Collection	Call Number	Status	Item Holds
33607003542951	Large Print Fiction	ROBINSON Marilynne	Searching... Unknown	Searching... Unavailable

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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.