Jack by Marilynne Robinson - 2020

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020. SIGNED. Purchased New. NF/F. New. 1st/1st. Stated First Edition. First printing with complete 10 number line starting with 1. Signed by Marilynne Robinson on the publisher's tipped-in page. The book is tight and square with solid hinges and binding, good tips, and clean unmarred boards. Light crease to spine tail. The textblock has a tiny tear to the top of the signature page (see photos), else fine with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. The dust jacket is unclipped ($27.00) and Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 5 1/2" X 8 1/2 " tall. 309 pages.

Marilynne Robinson, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Humanities Medal, returns to the world of Gilead with Jack, the latest in one of the great works of contemporary American fiction.

Jack tells the story of John Ames Boughton, the beloved, erratic, and grieved-over prodigal son of a Presbyterian minister in Gilead, Iowa. In segregated St. Louis sometime after World War II, Jack falls in love with Della Miles, an African American high school teacher who is also the daughter of a preacher―discerning, generous, and independent. Their fraught, beautiful romance is one of Robinson's greatest achievements.