Housekeeping

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Transience and the price of loss beautifully depicted.

This book would be a good read for someone who appreciates poetic storytelling and enjoys exploring themes of loss and survival. The author skillfully weaves together the lives of Ruth and Lucille as they navigate through unconventional caretakers and the haunting memories of their family history. Housekeeping delves into the complexities of transience and the emotional toll it takes on the characters, leaving readers with a profound sense of poignancy and introspection.

  • Pulitzer Prize Nominee for Fiction (1982)
  • PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Nominee (1982)
  • Rosenthal Family Foundation Award (1982)
  • National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (Paperback) (1983)
  • PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel (1982)
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Housekeeping

Regular price $9.90
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ISBN: 9780374525187
Date of Publication: 1997-09-30
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Contemporary, Literary Fiction
Related Topics: Classics, Literature
Goodreads rating: 3.81
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Winner of the Pen/Hemingway AwardA 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, the eccentric and remote sister of their dead mother. The family house is in the small town of Fingerbone on a glacial lake in the Far West, 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 transcience.
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Transience and the price of loss beautifully depicted.

This book would be a good read for someone who appreciates poetic storytelling and enjoys exploring themes of loss and survival. The author skillfully weaves together the lives of Ruth and Lucille as they navigate through unconventional caretakers and the haunting memories of their family history. Housekeeping delves into the complexities of transience and the emotional toll it takes on the characters, leaving readers with a profound sense of poignancy and introspection.

  • Pulitzer Prize Nominee for Fiction (1982)
  • PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Nominee (1982)
  • Rosenthal Family Foundation Award (1982)
  • National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (Paperback) (1983)
  • PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel (1982)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.