基列四部曲的最後一片拼圖
浪子回頭背後隱藏的真相與秘密，質問世間對「愛」與「平等」的真義
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傑克‧鮑頓離家20年，成為基列小鎮上的知名「不孝子」，他在母親去世時沒有回去，甚至在父親即將離世前又倉皇逃走，讓妹妹格洛莉無法諒解。
傑克逃離基列後在聖路易晃蕩，他對自己的失敗與一事無成感到失望，他為不能諒解他的父親感到無助，傑克因為沒犯下的罪而坐牢，出獄後也依舊茫茫不知所措。直到他遇見黛拉‧邁爾斯，一個聰明的黑人女教師，她也是牧師的小孩，這是他們最初的共同點，傑克深深愛著黛拉，終於找到一個人，讓他躁動不安又晦澀的心得以平靜。
但在當時，傑克和黛拉注定無法結婚，這樣的舉動甚至是犯法，傑克抱持著對社會與整個世界不公的憤怒，決心要頑強抵抗掙扎，卻也付出了極大代價...
傑克是《遺愛基列》四部曲中都曾出現的角色，在老約翰‧伊姆斯的眼中，他是個回家目的不明的浪蕩子；在妹妹格洛莉眼中，是個不如不要出現的麻煩鬼，也是讓她既討厭又不捨的哥哥；對萊拉而言，傑克是她兒子的大玩伴，且能夠體會她的過去，傑克貫穿了整部作品，而他的故事也對信仰與道德提出最赤裸的質問，探討真正的愛與平等，也為《遺愛基列》畫下完美的句點。
Marilynne Robinson, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Humanities Medal, returns to the world of Gilead with Jack, the latest novel in one of the great works of contemporary American fiction
Marilynne Robinson’s mythical world of Gilead, Iowa―the setting of her novels Gilead, Home, Lila, and now Jack―and its beloved characters have illuminated and interrogated the complexities of American history, the power of our emotions, and the wonders of a sacred world.
Jack is Robinson’s fourth novel in this now-classic series. In it, Robinson tells the story of John Ames Boughton, the prodigal son of Gilead’s Presbyterian minister, and his romance with Della Miles, a high school teacher who is also the child of a preacher. Their deeply felt, tormented, star-crossed interracial romance resonates with all the paradoxes of American life, then and now.
Robinson’s Gilead novels, which have won one Pulitzer Prize and two National Book Critics Circle Awards, are a vital contribution to contemporary American literature and a revelation of our national character and humanity.
