{"product_id":"jack-by-marilynne-robinson","title":"Jack by Marilynne Robinson","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e'Grace and intelligence . . . \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e[her work] defines universal truths about what it means to be human' Barack Obama'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe fourth in Robinson's luminous, profound Gilead series and perhaps the best yet, [Jack is] a sad story about love, race and midwestern mores' Observer \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMarilynne Robinson, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the American National Humanities Medal, returns to the world of Gilead with Jack, the final in one of the great works of contemporary American fiction. 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. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn segregated St. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLouis 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. Their fraught, beautiful story is one of Robinson's greatest achievements.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Week Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54038069674260,"sku":"etw1789768223323","price":14.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1011\/7627\/9316\/files\/jack-by-marilynne-robinson_1.jpg?v=1789768226","url":"https:\/\/straphemfit.shop\/products\/jack-by-marilynne-robinson","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}