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Housekeeping

Housekeeping

by Marilynne Robinson (Author)

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    Paperback 2005

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    Paperback 1987

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Synopsis

Housekeeping is the story of Ruth and Lucille, orphans growing up in the small desolate town of Fingerbone in the vast northwest of America. Abandoned by a succession of relatives, the sisters find themselves in the care of Sylvie, the remote and enigmatic sister of their dead mother. Steeped in imagery of the bleak wintry landscape around them, the sisters' struggle towards adulthood is powerfully portrayed in a novel about loss, loneliness and transience.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 224
 Edition: Main
 Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 07 Jul 2005
ISBN 10: 0571230083
ISBN 13: 9780571230082
Book Overview: Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson holds, in the words of Paul Bailey, 'a unique and quiet place among the masterpieces of twentieth-century American fiction.'

Media Reviews
So precise, so distilled, so beautiful that one doesn't want to miss any pleasure it might yield. -- The New York Times Book Review
Here's a first novel that sounds as if the author has been treasuring it up all her life...You can feel in the book a gathering voluptuous release of confidence, a delighted surprise at the unexpected capacities of language, a close, careful fondness for people that we thought only saints felt. --Anatole Broyard, The New York Times
I found myself reading slowly, than more slowly--this is not a novel to be hurried through, for every sentence is a delight. --Doris Lessing
Author Bio
Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson's first novel, was acclaimed by critics and later filmed by Bill Forsyth. She is also the author of a non-fiction title, the controversial Mother Country. Marilynne Robinson lives in New England.