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29 de set. de 2020 · In segregated St. Louis sometime after World War II, Jack falls in love with Della Miles, an African American high school teacher who is also the daughter of a preacher―discerning, generous, and independent. Their fraught, beautiful romance is one of Robinson’s greatest achievements.
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- Marilynne Robinson
Jack conta-nos a história de John Ames Boughton, o filho pródigo de um pastor presbiteriano de Gilead, e do seu romance com Della Miles, professora de inglês, também ela filha de um pregador. Um amor profundo, atormentado e inter-racial, que se move nos paradoxos da América contemporânea.
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Jack is Boughton ’s most beloved child and John ’s namesake. Knowing John might not have children, Boughton intended that Jack and John would have a kind of father-son relationship (Jack even called John “Papa” growing up).
4 primary works • 4 total works. Set in the 1950s in the rural town of Gilead, Iowa, this series chronicles the lives of the families of Reverend John Ames and Reverend Robert Boughton.
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.
- Marilynne Robinson
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award, GILEAD is a hymn of praise and lamentation to the God-haunted existence that Reverend Ames loves passionately, and from which he will soon part. In 1956, toward the end of Reverend John Ames's life, he begins a letter to his young son, an account of himself and his forebears.
Jack: Gilead, Book 4 (Audible Audio Edition): Marilynne Robinson, Adam Verner, McClelland & Stewart: Amazon.ca: Audible Books & Originals
