{"product_id":"jack-paperback","title":"Jack (Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'[Her work] defines universal truths about what it means to be human' Barack Obama\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarilynne Robinson is one of the greatest writers of our time' \u003ci\u003eSunday Times \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'\u003ci\u003eJack\u003c\/i\u003e is the fourth in Robinson's luminous, profound Gilead series and perhaps the best yet'\u003ci\u003e Observer \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMarilynne Robinson, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the American National Humanities Medal, returns to the world of Gilead with \u003c\/i\u003eJack\u003ci\u003e, the final in one of the great works of contemporary American fiction.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJack\u003c\/i\u003e 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. In segregated St. Louis 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\/p\u003e","brand":"Marilynne Robinson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40309903786162,"sku":"9780349011790","price":295.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/9191\/8002\/products\/339108_61137cd1133224.05049033_9780349011790_b9901e1e-0e1a-406d-b037-4759f76e7a43.jpg?v=1640828211","url":"https:\/\/www.wordsworth.co.za\/products\/jack-paperback","provider":"Wordsworth Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}