7.8 /10 1 Votes
Country United States Publication date October 7, 2014 Originally published 2014 Genre Novel | 3.9/5 Goodreads Language English Pages 272 pp ISBN 0374187614 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Publisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux Media type hardcover, paperback, audiobook Awards National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction Nominations National Book Award for Fiction Similar Marilynne Robinson books, National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction winners, Novels | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Lila is a novel written by Marilynne Robinson that was published in 2014. Her fourth novel, it is the third installment of the Gilead trilogy. The novel focuses on the courtship and marriage of Lila and John Ames, as well as the backstory of Lila's transient past and her complex attachments. It won the 2014 National Book Critics Circle Award.
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Lila has received widespread acclaim. In a review for The Atlantic Leslie Jamison praised the novel as "brilliant and deeply affecting." In another review, Sarah Churchwell wrote, "Lila... offers Robinson's characteristic delights: glorious prose, subtle wisdom and a darkly numinous atmosphere, lit at moments by a visionary wonder shading into exaltation."
In Books and Culture Linda Moore offers "a dissenting view," critiquing the Christianity that Robinson writes about as "gospel thin, exiguous, a story slight and wanting, and Flannery isn't here to say so."