Housekeeping

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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, 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.

Copyright:
1980

Book Details

Book Quality:
Excellent
Book Size:
220 Pages
ISBN-13:
9780553244724
Publisher:
N/A
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Marilynne Robinson
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
History, Literature and Fiction
Submitted By:
Josh Swatosh
Proofread By:
Josh Swatosh
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.

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