Jack
An Oprah's Book Club Pick
(Sprache: Englisch)
'Grace and intelligence . . . Marilynne Robinson defines universal truths about what it means to be human' Barack Obama
Setting her novel after World War II, just before Gilead, Home and Lila, Marilynne Robinson returns to the world of Gilead.
Jack,...
Setting her novel after World War II, just before Gilead, Home and Lila, Marilynne Robinson returns to the world of Gilead.
Jack,...
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'Grace and intelligence . . . Marilynne Robinson defines universal truths about what it means to be human' Barack ObamaSetting her novel after World War II, just before Gilead, Home and Lila, Marilynne Robinson returns to the world of Gilead.
Jack, the grieved-over prodigal son, a drunkard and a ne'er-do-well has left home for St Louis. In that segregated city Jack falls in love with an African-American high school teacher, also a preacher's child. Della Miles is a woman with a discriminating mind, a generous spirit and an independent will. Jack is their fraught and beautiful love story.
'An unlikely love story, both funny and sublime: we see two souls awakening to love in that down-to-earth yet transcendent vein that is Robinson's special hallmark' Nonnie Minogue, Literary Review
'Jack fits beautifully into the subtle weave of Robinson's Gilead books . . . could perfectly well be read on its own' Erica Wagner, Financial Times
'An immensely satisfying and bittersweet end to an astonishing series . . . They are beautiful, and they are true' Stuart Kelly, Scotsman
Autoren-Porträt von 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.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Marilynne Robinson
- 2021, 320 Seiten, Masse: 13,2 x 19,8 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Little, Brown Book Group
- ISBN-10: 0349011796
- ISBN-13: 9780349011790
- Erscheinungsdatum: 14.04.2021
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
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 Sarah Perry Guardian
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