Jack
/ Marilynne Robinson
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 2020
- 309 p. ; 21 cm.
Jack tells the story of John Ames Boughton, the loved and grieved-over prodigal son of a Presbyterian minister in Gilead, Iowa, a drunkard and a ne'er-do-well. In segregated St. Louis sometime after World War II, Jack falls in love with Della Miles, an African-American high school teacher, also a preacher's child, with a discriminating mind, a generous spirit and an independent will.
English
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Conflict of generations---Fiction Children of clergy----Fiction Fathers and sons----Fiction Man-woman relationships----Fiction Interracial dating Fiction Families----Fiction