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Jack
An Oprah's Book Club Pick
Taschenbuch von Marilynne Robinson
Sprache: Englisch

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Marilynne Robinson, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Women's Fiction Prize, the National Book Critics Prize and and The American National Humanities Medal,returns to the world of Gilead with Jack, the final novel in one of the great works of contemporary American fiction.

Setting her novel in the time just before Gilead, Home and Lila, after World War II, JACK is John Ames Boughton's book.

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 .

Never has Marilynne Robinson's compassion, wisdom and wit been so beautifully employed

as in her portrayl of this wayward, much-loved son.

Marilynne Robinson, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Women's Fiction Prize, the National Book Critics Prize and and The American National Humanities Medal,returns to the world of Gilead with Jack, the final novel in one of the great works of contemporary American fiction.

Setting her novel in the time just before Gilead, Home and Lila, after World War II, JACK is John Ames Boughton's book.

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 .

Never has Marilynne Robinson's compassion, wisdom and wit been so beautifully employed

as in her portrayl of this wayward, much-loved son.

Über den Autor
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.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Genre: Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: 320 S.
ISBN-13: 9780349011806
ISBN-10: 034901180X
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellernummer: 681660
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Robinson, Marilynne
Hersteller: Little, Brown
Maße: 216 x 135 x 27 mm
Von/Mit: Marilynne Robinson
Erscheinungsdatum: 29.09.2020
Gewicht: 0,34 kg
preigu-id: 118070844
Über den Autor
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.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Genre: Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: 320 S.
ISBN-13: 9780349011806
ISBN-10: 034901180X
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellernummer: 681660
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Robinson, Marilynne
Hersteller: Little, Brown
Maße: 216 x 135 x 27 mm
Von/Mit: Marilynne Robinson
Erscheinungsdatum: 29.09.2020
Gewicht: 0,34 kg
preigu-id: 118070844
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