Jack (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel Hardcover by Marilynne Robinson

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Jack (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel Hardcover by Marilynne Robinson

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ McClelland & Stewart (Sept. 29 2020)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0771006039
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 9780771006036
  • Item weight ‏ : ‎ 440 g
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 14.61 x 2.67 x 21.59 cm

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A new classic from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gilead and Housekeeping.

The long-awaited fourth and last of Marilynne Robinson's Gilead novels--one of the great works of contemporary literature.

With Jack, Robinson takes her readers back to the small town of Gilead, Iowa, in 1956, to tell the story of John Ames Boughton, the godson of John Ames and the black sheep of his family. He's a ne-er do well and the beloved prodigal son who falls in love with and marries Della, a beautiful and brilliant African-American teacher he meets in segregated St. Louis. Their fraught, beautiful romance is one of Robinson's greatest achievements.


About Author

MARILYNNE ROBINSON is the recipient of a 2012 National Humanities Medal, awarded by President Barack Obama, for “her grace and intelligence in writing.” In 2013, she was awarded South Korea’s Park Kyong-ni Prize for her contribution to international literature. She is the author of Lila, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and a finalist for the National Book Award; Gilead, winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award; and Home, winner of the Orange Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and a finalist for the National Book Award. Her first novel, Housekeeping, won the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. Robinson’s nonfiction books include What Are We Doing Here?, The Givenness of Things, When I Was a Child I Read Books, Absence of Mind, The Death of Adam, and Mother Country, which was nominated for a National Book Award. She lives in Iowa City, where she taught at the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop for twenty-five years.

Author Residence: Iowa City, Iowa

Author Hometown: Sandpoint, Idaho



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