Jack (Robinson novel)
First edition cover | |
| Author | Marilynne Robinson |
|---|---|
| Audio read by | Adam Verner |
| Language | English |
| Set in | St. Louis, Missouri |
| Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Publication date | September 29, 2020 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardcover), e-book, audio |
| Pages | 320 |
| ISBN | 978-0-374-27930-1 (hardcover) |
| OCLC | 1136958758 |
| 813/.54 | |
| LC Class | PS3568.O3125 J33 2020 |
| Preceded by | Lila |
Jack is a novel by Marilynne Robinson, published on September 29, 2020, by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
It is Robinson's fifth novel and her fourth in the Gilead sequence, preceded by Gilead (2004), Home (2008), and Lila (2014). It focuses on John Ames "Jack" Boughton, the troubled son of Robert Boughton. He was named after Robert's friend Reverend John Ames, the subject of Gilead (2004). It tells the story of the courtship of Della Miles and Jack Boughton, an interracial couple in post-World War II St. Louis, Missouri.