![]() ![]() “I am the Prince of Darkness,” Jack self-pityingly declares. ![]() Yet she shares his passion for poetry, respects his grasp of scripture, and is lovingly unimpressed with his self-loathing. There’s little to recommend him to her – he’s a self-declared “confirmed, inveterate bum,” semi-employed and living in a flophouse. Louis with Della, a teacher and daughter of a strict Memphis, Tennessee, minister. “Jack” doesn’t clear up every mystery, but it does provide some backstory, tracking the early days of his romance in St. In the mid-century Midwest that the “Gilead” cycle covers, he’s a scandal on two ill-shod feet.īut while Jack is a familiar figure in Robinson’s books, he’s also a cagey, mysterious one. He’s a hard-drinking and occasionally suicidal thief, a white preacher’s son who abandoned the destitute teenage girl he had a child with, then fell in love with Della, a Black woman. ![]() Jack Boughton, introduced in Robinson’s Pulitzer-winning 2004 novel, “Gilead,” is the quintessential prodigal son. Watch Video: Comedians Desus and Mero on cancel culture, new bookįor devoted readers of Marilynne Robinson, the title alone of her fifth novel, “Jack” (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 320 pp., ★★★ out of four), should stir a host of emotions. ![]()
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