In this bestselling new book, his first in seventeen years, Robert M. Pirsig, author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, takes us on a poignant and passionate journey as mysterious and compelling as his first life-changing work.
In a Parisian ghetto, Lila, a sixteen-year-old Catholic girl, stops to talk to Chimo, a nineteen-year-old Arab boy, and puts into motion a sequence of events that is shockingly raw,...
Returning to Gilead to care for her dying father, Glory Boughton is joined by her long-absent brother, with whom she bonds throughout his struggles with alcoholism, unemployment, and their father's traditionalist values.
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER Marilynne Robinson, one of the greatest novelists of our time, returns to the town of Gilead with the unforgettable story of a girlhood ...
An intimate tale of three generations, from the Civil War to the 20th century: a story about fathers and sons and the spiritual battles that still rage at America's heart.
... Christmas tree was installed in the center of the park , decorated with white lights and shiny gold banners looped over the branches and delicate white angels with silvery wings hanging down from thin white ribbons . Shop owners were ...
Alex put his arm around my shoulder and started to turn away towards the doors. 'See you around, boys,' he ... 'This is Lila,' he said, 'Jack's little sister.' Little? It felt like he had given me a paper cut down the length of my body.
Describes a voyage down the Hudson River undertaken by Phaedrus and a troubled companion, who provokes a philosophical crisis as the philosopher-narrator wrestles with essential questions of morality
Phaedrus has traded in his motor cycle for a sailboat, his traveling companion, son Chris, for Lila, a woman he met in a bar, and his focus on values for a concentration on morals.
“I didn't ask you to baby me because you feel sorry for me.” “I wasn't! I was just trying to be a good sister! And today—I wanted one nice day together—I tried to make everything relaxed and fun. But I guess that wasn't good enough!