Lila
An Oprah's Book Club Pick
$20.69
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
29 September 2015
Summary
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD
AN OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK
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.
‘One of the greatest living novelists’ BRYAN APPLEYARD, SUNDAY TIMES
‘Robinson is frequently named as one of America’s most significant …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781844088829 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1844088820 |
| Author: | Marilynne Robinson |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 29 September 2015 |
| Weight: | 220g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 18mm |
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Critics Review
Robinson brings [the story] to pulsating life in prose of great and luminous beauty … a book that leaves the reader feeling what can only be called exaltation - Independent
This third novel in the sequence is, in many ways, the most adventurous of all … Lila is the work of an exceptional novelist at the peak of her capacity - New StatesmanRobinson has made a world so palpable and full that each book can stand alone…Taken together, these books will surely be known as one of the great achievements of contemporary literature - ObserverHer questioning books express wonder: they are enlightening, in the best sense, passionately contesting our facile, recycled understanding of ourselves and of our world - GuardianAbout The Author
Marilynne Robinson
Marilynne Robinson is the author of Gilead, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award; Home, winner of the Orange Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; Lila, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award; and Jack, a New York Times bestseller. Her first novel, Housekeeping, won the PEN/Hemingway Award. Robinson’s non-fiction books include The Givenness of Things, When I Was a Child I Read Books, Absence of Mind, The Death of Adam, and Mother Country. She is the recipient of a 2012 National Humanities Medal, awarded by President Barack Obama, for ‘her grace and intelligence in writing.’ Robinson lives in Iowa City, Iowa.
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