![]() ![]() Jack, the fourth novel in the series begun with Gilead, takes us back to the years when Jack Boughton gets out of prison in St. ![]() The writing is starkly memorable and chilling because of Robinson’s magisterial approach to character and destiny, to sinfulness and the possibility of redemption, but also because of her skill at delineating minute feelings and ordinary, small gestures. The next few pages, as they find that he has gone, leaving no address, are created with a drama fed by silences, by things that can never be said. Just as he departs, his African American wife Della and son Robert arrive looking for him. At the end of Home, as Robert Boughton is dying, his wayward son Jack decides it is time to end the visit to the family home in Gilead that he has made after twenty years away. ![]() After that novel, which charted the relationship between John Ames and Robert Boughton, both religious ministers in Iowa, she published two further ones set in Gilead- Home (2008) and then Lila (2014). Jack, by Marilynne Robinson, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 309 pages, $27Īs each new book appears, the world that Marilynne Robinson first created in Gilead (2004) becomes more textured and complex. ![]()
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