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    Jack (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel
    Jack (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel
    Jack (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel
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    Jack (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel

    Written by Marilynne Robinson

    Narrated by Adam Verner

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    "Robinson’s slow prose is the star here, and narrator Adam Verner gives great depth of emotion to Jack’s raw suffering and ethical dilemmas...Come for the love story; stay for a couple who learn to find the beauty in broken humanity, and what grace can look like for those who love each other." -- Booklist

    This program includes a bonus conversation with the author.

    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.

    A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux

    Editor's Note

    Love has a price…

    Pulitzer Prize winner Marilynne Robinson continues her acclaimed “Gilead” novels with the moving story of star-crossed lovers set in a segregated, post-WWII America that deemed their love illegal and dangerous. When Jack, a white prodigal son of a preacher, falls for Della, an upstanding Black teacher, their bond proves that love conquers all — but at a price.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Audio
    Release dateSep 29, 2020
    ISBN9781250257222
    Author

    Marilynne Robinson

    Marilynne Robinson is the author of Gilead, winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award; Home (2008), winner of the Orange Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; Lila (2014), winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award; and Jack (2020), a New York Times bestseller. Her first novel, Housekeeping (1980), won the PEN/Hemingway Award. Robinson’s nonfiction books include The Givenness of Things (2015), When I Was a Child I Read Books (2012), Absence of Mind (2010), The Death of Adam (1998), and Mother Country (1989). 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 California

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    • 5/5
      In the top 10 of profound books. I will think about episodes in this book till I die. “You must leave you are not welcome here.” This said in as kind a way as possible , stretches my mind like taffy from one end of the block to the other. I want to be Della, or like Della but sort of with good bits from me. .Finally, did a wonderful woman as good as Della ever really marry a white man? What did their children become? Teachers , preachers, thieves, assassins, authors, scientists, mothers, uncomfortable late bloomers with extreme self control room l like Jack. What did Jacks soul look like to Della. What did Dellas. Soul look like to God. Would I be able to look at Della’s soul without going half blind? I think it would’ve been worth it to loose my sight to see such hope. K. Heidi in Phoenix , the month before the Trump vs Biden Election 2020 where many people are looking for goodness and hope in our neighbors
    • 5/5
      Amazing, as all of Gillead´s books. Reading Marilynne Robinson is always a pleasure.