Jack, September 2020
Hardcover / e-Book Lila, October 2014
Hardcover / e-Book Absence Of Mind, June 2010
Hardcover Home: A Novel, September 2008
Hardcover Gilead, January 2006
Paperback Gilead, November 2004
Hardcover Housekeeping, November 2004
Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
September 2020
On Sale: September 29, 2020
320 pages ISBN: 0374279306 EAN: 9780374279301 Kindle: B084M23WJP Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
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.