Lila: A Novel
Lila: A Novel
By Marilynne Robinson
Lila: A Novel By Marilynne Robinson
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER
A new American classic from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gilead
and Housekeeping
Marilynne Robinson, one of the greatest novelists of our time, returns to the town
of Gilead in an unforgettable story of a girlhood lived on the fringes of society in
fear, awe, and wonder.
Lila, homeless and alone after years of roaming the countryside, steps inside a
small-town Iowa church-the only available shelter from the rain-and ignites a
romance and a debate that will reshape her life. She becomes the wife of a
minister, John Ames, and begins a new existence while trying to make sense of
the life that preceded her newfound security.
Neglected as a toddler, Lila was rescued by Doll, a canny young drifter, and
brought up by her in a hardscrabble childhood. Together they crafted a life on the
run, living hand to mouth with nothing but their sisterly bond and a ragged blade
to protect them. Despite bouts of petty violence and moments of desperation,
their shared life was laced with moments of joy and love. When Lila arrives in
Gilead, she struggles to reconcile the life of her makeshift family and their days
of hardship with the gentle Christian worldview of her husband which
paradoxically judges those she loves.
Revisiting the beloved characters and setting of Robinson's Pulitzer Prizewinning Gilead and Home, a National Book Award finalist, Lila is a moving
expression of the mysteries of existence that is destined to become an American
classic.
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Lila: A Novel
By Marilynne Robinson
Lila: A Novel By Marilynne Robinson
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER
A new American classic from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gilead and Housekeeping
Marilynne Robinson, one of the greatest novelists of our time, returns to the town of Gilead in an
unforgettable story of a girlhood lived on the fringes of society in fear, awe, and wonder.
Lila, homeless and alone after years of roaming the countryside, steps inside a small-town Iowa church-the
only available shelter from the rain-and ignites a romance and a debate that will reshape her life. She
becomes the wife of a minister, John Ames, and begins a new existence while trying to make sense of the life
that preceded her newfound security.
Neglected as a toddler, Lila was rescued by Doll, a canny young drifter, and brought up by her in a
hardscrabble childhood. Together they crafted a life on the run, living hand to mouth with nothing but their
sisterly bond and a ragged blade to protect them. Despite bouts of petty violence and moments of
desperation, their shared life was laced with moments of joy and love. When Lila arrives in Gilead, she
struggles to reconcile the life of her makeshift family and their days of hardship with the gentle Christian
worldview of her husband which paradoxically judges those she loves.
Revisiting the beloved characters and setting of Robinson's Pulitzer Prize-winning Gilead and Home, a
National Book Award finalist, Lila is a moving expression of the mysteries of existence that is destined to
become an American classic.
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Sales Rank: #13201 in Books
Brand: imusti
Published on: 2015-10-06
Released on: 2015-10-06
Original language: English
Number of items: 1
Dimensions: 207.77" h x .71" w x 5.54" l, .0 pounds
Binding: Paperback
272 pages
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Editorial Review
Review
ˇ°Writing in lovely, angular prose that has the high loneliness of an old bluegrass tune, Ms. Robinson has
created a balladlike story . . . The novel is powerful and deeply affecting . . . Ms. Robinson renders [Lila's]
tale with the stark poetry of Edward Hopper or Andrew Wyeth.ˇ± ?Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
ˇ°Lila is a book whose grandeur is found in its humility. That's what makes Gilead among the most
memorable settings in American fiction . . . Gilead [is] a kind of mythic everyplace, a quintessential national
setting where our country's complicated union with faith, in all its degrees of constancy and skepticism, is
enacted.ˇ± ?Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal
ˇ°My message is simple. Even if you haven't found the two previous books to your taste, give Lila a try . . .
what we get . . . is the highest fictional magic: a character who seems so real, it's hard to remember that she
exists only in the page of this book . . . No writers can see life whole. There's too much of it, too many sides,
to be comprehended by a single vision. But some books give us a sense of such wholeness, and they are
precious for it. Lila is such a book.ˇ± ?John Wilson, Chicago Tribune
ˇ°Lila, Marilynne Robinson's remarkable new novel, stands alone as a book to read and even read again. It's
both a multilayered love story and a perceptive look at how early depirvation causes lasting damage . . .
Robinson is a novelist of the first order.ˇ± ?Ellen Heltzel, The Seattle Times
ˇ°Grade: A Emotionally and intellectually challenging, it's an exploration of faith in God, love, and whatever
else it takes to survive.ˇ± ?Entertainment Weekly
ˇ°Gorgeous writing, an absolutely beautiful book . . . This should come as no surprise to anyone familiar with
Robinson, a novelist who can make the most quotidian moments epic because of her ability to peel back the
surfaces of ordinary lives . . . [a] profound and deeply rendered novel.ˇ± ?David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times
ˇ°Ever since the publication of Robinson's thrilling first novel, Housekeeping, reviewers have been pointing
out that, for an analyst of modern alienation, she is an unusual specimen: a devout Protestant, reared in
Idaho. She now lives in Iowa City, where she teaches at the Iowa Writers' Workshop and where, for years,
she has been accustomed to interrupting her career as a novelist to produce essays on such matters as the
truth of John Calvin's writings. But Robinson's Low Church allegiance has hugely benefitted her fiction . . .
This is an unflinching book.ˇ± ?Joan Acocella, The New Yorker
ˇ°Marilynne Robinson tracks the movements of grace as if it were a wild animal, appearing for fleeting
intervals and then disappearing past the range of vision, emerging again where we least expect to find it. Her
novels are interested in what makes grace necessary at all--shame and its afterlife, loss and its residue, the
limits and betrayals of intimacy. In Lila, her brilliant and deeply affecting new novel, even her description of
sunlight in a St. Louis bordello holds a kind of heartbreak . . . Robinson's determination to shed light on . . .
complexities--the solitude that endures inside intimacy, the sorrow that persists beside joy--marks her as one
of those rare writers genuinely committed to contradiction as an abiding state of consciousness. Her
characters surprise us with the depth and ceaseless wrinkling of their feelings.ˇ± ?Leslie Jamison, The Atlantic
ˇ°Radiant . . . As in Gilead and Home, Robinson steps away from the conventions of the realistic novel to
deal with metaphysical abstractions, signaling by the formality of her language her adoption of another
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