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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.
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“An intergenerational saga of race, religion, family, and forgiveness centered on a small Iowa town. But it is not accurate to call it a sequel or a prequel. Rather, this book and the others?Gilead, Home, and Lila?are more like the Gospels, telling the same story four different ways.”
— New Yorker
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“An intergenerational saga of race, religion, family, and forgiveness centered on a small Iowa town. But it is not accurate to call it a sequel or a prequel. Rather, this book and the others―Gilead, Home, and Lila―are more like the Gospels, telling the same story four different ways.”
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“With the sublime Jack, [Robinson] resumes and deepens her quest, extending it to the contemplation of race.”
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“An elegantly written proof of the thesis that love conquers all―but not without considerable pain.”
— Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
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New York Times bestseller
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Among longlisted titles for New York Times Book Review Notable Books of the Year, 2020
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Among longlisted titles for Esquire Magazine Best Books of the Year, 2020
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Among longlisted titles for Time Magazine Best Books of the Year, 2020
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Among longlisted titles for The Guardian (UK) Best Books of the Year, 2020
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Among longlisted titles for Los Angeles Times Holiday Books Guide, 2020
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Among longlisted titles for NYPL Best Books of the Year, 2020
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Among longlisted titles for Financial Times Books of the Year, 2020
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Among longlisted titles for NPR Best Book of the Year, 2020
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Among longlisted titles for Minneapolis Star Tribune Holiday Book Recommendations, 2020
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Among longlisted titles for New York Times Book Review Notable Books of the Year, 2020
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Among longlisted titles for Esquire Magazine Best Books of the Year, 2020
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Among longlisted titles for Time Magazine Best Books of the Year, 2020
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Among longlisted titles for The Guardian (UK) Best Books of the Year, 2020
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Among longlisted titles for Kirkus Reviews Best Books of the Year, 2020
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Among longlisted titles for Los Angeles Times Best Books of the Year, 2020
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Among longlisted titles for Kirkus Reviews Best Books of the Year, 2020
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Among longlisted titles for Los Angeles Times Holiday Books Guide, 2020
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Among longlisted titles for NYPL Best Books of the Year, 2020
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Among longlisted titles for Financial Times Books of the Year, 2020
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Among longlisted titles for NPR Best Book of the Year, 2020
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Among longlisted titles for Minneapolis Star Tribune Holiday Book Recommendations, 2020
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About Marilynne Robinson
Marilynne Robinson is the author of numerous books, including Gilead, winner of the 2005 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. She is the recipient of a 2012 National Humanities Medal, awarded by President Barack Obama, for “her grace and intelligence in writing.”
About Adam Verner
Adam Verner is a stage, film, television, and voice actor and an Earphones Award–winning audiobook narrator. He holds a BS in theater arts from Bradley University and an MFA from Chicago College of the Performing Arts at Roosevelt University.