Jack
with Marilynne Robinson
Hosted by Rhonda Douglas
Robinson’s latest glorious work of metaphysical and moral inquiry, nuanced feelings, intricate imagination, and exquisite sensuousness . . . Myriad manifestations of pain are evoked, but here, too, are beauty, mystery, and joy as Robinson holds us rapt with the exactitude of her perceptions and the exhilaration of her hymnal cadence, and so gracefully elucidates the complex sorrows and wonders of life and spirit.
Author Rhonda Douglas hosts a conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winner Marilynne Robinson on the long-awaited fourth and last of her Gilead novels—one of the great works of contemporary literature.
With Jack, her latest classic, Marilyn Robinson takes us back to the small town of Gilead, Iowa, in 1956, to tell the story of John Ames Boughton, the godson of John Ames and the black sheep of his family. He's a ne’er do well and the beloved prodigal son who falls in love with and marries Della, a beautiful and brilliant African-American teacher he meets in segregated St. Louis. Their fraught, beautiful romance is one of Robinson’s greatest achievements.
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