Housekeeping

Housekeeping

by Marilynne Robinson (Author)

Synopsis

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, 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 transience.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 224
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: 04 Nov 1991

ISBN 10: 0571164021
ISBN 13: 9780571164028

Media Reviews
'So precise, so distilled, so beautiful that one doesn't want to miss any pleasure it might yield.' New York Times Book Review; 'Marilynne Robinson uses language so exquisitely... every sentence is a wonderful sentence, made just right.' Washington Post Book World
Author Bio
was born and brought up in the American North West. She lives in lowa.