320 pages |Hardcover

The winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Humanities Medal returns to the world of Gilead withJack, the final installment in one of the greatest works of contemporary American fiction

Marilynne Robinsons mythical world of Gilead, Iowathe setting of her novelsGilead,Home, andLila, and nowJackand its beloved characters have illuminated and interrogated the complexities of American history, the power of our emotions, and the wonders of a sacred world.Jackis Robinsons fourth novel in this now-classic series. In it, Robinson tells the story of John Ames Boughton, the prodigal son of Gileads Presbyterian minister, and his romance with Della Miles, a high school teacher who is also the son of a preacher. Their deeply felt, tormented, star-crossed interracial romance resonates with all the paradoxes of American life, then and now.

Robinsons 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.