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Housekeeping: A Novel

By Marilynne Robinson

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Housekeeping: A Novel

By Marilynne Robinson

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A modern classic Housekeeping is the story of Ruth and her younger sister Lucille who grow up haphazardly first under the care of their competent grandmother then of two comically bumbling great aunts and finally of Sylvie their eccentric and remote aunt The family house is in the small Far West town of Fingerbone set on a glacial lake the same lake where their grandfather died in a spectacular train wreck and their mother drove off a cliff to her death It is a town chastened by an outsized landscape and extravagant weather and chastened again by an awareness that the whole of human history had occurred elsewhere Ruth and Lucille s struggle toward adulthood beautifully illuminates the price of loss and survival and the dangerous and deep undertow of transience
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
224
Release Date:
2004-11-01
Publication Date:
2004-10-01
Publisher:
Saint Martin's Press
Languages:
Published: English
ISBN10:
0312424094
Weight:
204 g
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