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Sacred Loneliness and Sacred Comfort: A Review of Marilynne Robinson’s 'Lila'

December 2nd, 2014 | 6 min read

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Jonathan McGregor is a PhD candidate in English and American Literature at Washington University in St. Louis, where he's writing about twentieth-century American literary intellectuals and Christian social thought. You can follow him on Twitter.

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Sacred Loneliness and Sacred Comfort: A Review of Marilynne Robinson’s 'Lila'

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