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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 writers . . . Her questioning books express wonder: they are enlightening, in the best sense, passionately contesting our facile, recycled understanding of ourselves and of our world'' SARAH CHURCHWELL, GUARDIAN
''The work of an exceptional novelist'' ROWAN WILLIAMS, NEW STATESMAN
''A sumptuous, graceful and ultimately life-affirming novel'' JAMES KIDD, INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY
''Great and luminous beauty . . . a book that leaves the reader feeling what can only be called exaltation'' NEEL MUKHERJEE, INDEPENDENT
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About the Author
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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WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD
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.
'Robinson is frequently named as one of America's most significant writers ... Her questioning books express wonder: they are enlightening, in the best sense, passionately contesting our facile, recycled understanding of ourselves and of our world'
Sarah Churchwell, Guardian
'Lila is the work of an exceptional novelist at the peak of her capacity'
Rowan Williams, New Statesman
'A sumptuous, graceful, and ultimately life-affirming novel'
James Kidd, Independent on Sunday
'Great and luminous beauty . . . a book that leaves the reader feeling what can only be called exaltation'
Neel Mukherjee, Independent
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- PublisherVirago Press Ltd
- Publication date2015
- ISBN 10 1844088820
- ISBN 13 9781844088829
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages272
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