Housekeeping
of Marilynne Robinson
Description
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.
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Book Details
- Format Paperback
- Pages 219 pages
- Publisher Picador USA
- Publication Date November 1st 2004
- First Publication 03/01/82
- Language English
- ISBN 9780312424091
- Edition Not informed
- Category Fiction
- Scenario ['United States of America']
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