02198cam a2200373 i 4500 437756933 TxAuBib 20200921120000.0 200327s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2020012453 9780374279301 HRD 27.00 0374279306 HRD 27.00 (OCoLC)1136958758 TxAuBib rda Robinson, Marilynne. Jack / Marilynne Robinson. First edition. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020. 309 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "A new Gilead novel that tells the story of John Ames Boughton, the beloved, erratic, and grieved-over prodigal son of a Presbyterian minister from Gilead, Iowa"-- Provided by publisher. 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. 20200928. jz. Conflict of generations Fiction. Children of clergy Fiction. Interracial dating Fiction. Man-woman relationships Fiction. Romance fiction. Iowa Fiction. Religious fiction.