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Housekeeping

by Marilynne Robinson
$10.73
Housekeeping - Thryft
Housekeeping - Thryft
  • 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.

Housekeeping

by Marilynne Robinson
$10.73
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ISBN: 9780312424091
Authors: Marilynne Robinson
Publisher: Picador
Date of Publication: 2004-11-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Literary Fiction, Contemporary
Related Topics: Classics, Literature
Goodreads rating: 3.81
(rated by 52798 readers)

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.
 
  • 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.