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Jack

By: Marilynne Robinson
Narrated by: Adam Verner
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Summary

A New York Times best seller. 

A Barack Obama Book of the Year 2020.

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.

©2020 Marilynne Robinson (P)2020 Hachette Audio UK Christian Fiction Fiction Genre Fiction Metaphysical & Visionary Small Town & Rural
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Critic Reviews

"Grace and intelligence...[her work] defines universal truths about what it means to be human." (Barack Obama)

"Radiant and visionary." (Sarah Perry, Guardian)

"Jack is the fourth in Robinson's luminous, profound Gilead series and perhaps the best yet." (Observer)
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Didn’t dislike anything. It was all very interesting. Unfortunately, a terrible time in our history.

The narrative and way it was written.

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So deeply engaging I found myself breathing with Jack, indeed with all the characters. An extraordinary experience. Thankyou Marylin Robinson. Tony

An interior exploration of the highest order. Masterful!

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