recri reviewed Jack: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson (Gilead, #4)
Review of 'Jack' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
An infinite number of ways to be awkward.
Hardcover, 301 pages
Norsk language
Published 2023 by Cappelen Damm.
Jack
- ISBN:
- 978-82-02-69276-6
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4 stars
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SharonC reviewed Jack: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson (Gilead, #4)
Review of 'Jack' on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
Still find the prose superlative. But the pace of this book was almost excrutiatingly slow. And while I suppose the characters are supposed to be read as analogies, I could not answer why Della falls in love with jack and stays with him.
Subjects
- American literature
- nyt:hardcover-fiction=2020-10-18
- New York Times bestseller
- New York Times reviewed
- Fiction, family life, general
- Fiction, psychological
- Fiction, religious
- Fathers and sons, fiction
- Man-woman relationships, fiction
- Iowa, fiction
- Dating (social customs), fiction
- Domestic fiction
- Religious fiction
- Psychological fiction
- Conflict of generations
- Fiction
- Children of clergy
- Fathers and sons
- Man-woman relationships
- Interracial dating
- Families
- FICTION / Literary