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- Paperback Apr 13, 2021 | 9780349011790 | RRP $22.99 Buy Now
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- Audiobook Sep 29, 2020 | 9781405548519 | RRP $35.99 Buy Now
- e-Book Sep 29, 2020 | 9780349011783 | RRP $15.99 Buy Now
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Little, Brown Audio
- Paperback Apr 13, 2021 | 9780349011790 | RRP $22.99 Buy Now
- Trade Paperback Sep 29, 2020 | 9780349011806 | RRP $29.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook Sep 29, 2020 | 9781405548519 | RRP $35.99 Buy Now
- e-Book Sep 29, 2020 | 9780349011783 | RRP $15.99 Buy Now
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Virago
- Paperback Apr 13, 2021 | 9780349011790 | RRP $22.99 Buy Now
- Trade Paperback Sep 29, 2020 | 9780349011806 | RRP $29.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook Sep 29, 2020 | 9781405548519 | RRP $35.99 Buy Now
- e-Book Sep 29, 2020 | 9780349011783 | RRP $15.99 Buy Now
From one of the English language's great writers. Revisiting her beloved characters, Jack joins Gilead, winner of the Pulitzer; Home, winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction and Lila, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award. This is the compassionate and heart-breaking story of the wayward son, Jack Boughton.
'[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.
Praise for Jack: An Oprah's Book Club Pick
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Marilynne Robinson is one of the greatest writers of our time. In 2008 I concluded my article: "I'm not saying that you're actually dead if you haven't read Marilynne Robinson, but I honestly couldn't say you're fully alive." I have not changed my mind - Sunday Times
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Radiant and visionary, the fourth Gilead novel explores whether a minister's prodigal son can be redeemed by love . . . [Marilynne Robinson is] a writer of magisterial wisdom and skill . . . This has been Robinson's project: to perceive "this teeming world", as she puts it, "so steeped in its sins", and all the same to insist on what is best and loveliest - Guardian
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It could be said that the attempt to understand how things are is at the heart of Robinson's remarkable body of work. Jack fits beautifully into the subtle weave of Robinson's Gilead books; that said, it could perfectly well be read on its own - Financial Times
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Each of [Robinson's] novels has celebrated the fact that the ineffable is inseparable from the quotidian, and rendered the ineffable, quotidian world back to us, peculiar, luminous and precise - Atlantic
Marilynne Robinson
Marilynne Robinson is the author of Gilead, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award; Home, winner of the Orange Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; Lila, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award; and Jack, a New York Times bestseller. Her first novel, Housekeeping, won the PEN/Hemingway Award. Robinson's non-fiction books include The Givenness of Things, When I Was a Child I Read Books, Absence of Mind, The Death of Adam, and Mother Country. She is the recipient of a 2012 National Humanities Medal, awarded by President Barack Obama, for 'her grace and intelligence in writing.' Robinson lives in Iowa City, Iowa.
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