A sailboat carries philosopher-narrator Phaedrus down the Hudson River as winter closes in. Along the way he picks up a most unlikely traveling companion: a woman named Lila who in her desperate sexuality, hostility, and oncoming madness threatens to disrupt his life.

In Lila Robert M. Pirsing has crafted a unique work of adventure and ideas that examines the essential issues of the nineties.

Lila: An Inquiry into Morals