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Housekeeping: A Novel

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Poetic meditation on transience and domesticity.

If you're drawn to lyrical prose and deep reflections on family and belonging, "Housekeeping" would resonate with you. Marilynne Robinson crafts a world where the mundane reveals its own peculiar beauty, and where the unsteady journey towards understanding one's place in the world is laid bare in all its poignant complexity. Expect to be moved and to contemplate long after the last page.

  • 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.
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Housekeeping: A Novel

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ISBN: 9781250060655
Date of Publication: 2015-11-03
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Literary Fiction, Contemporary
Related Topics: Classics, Literature
Goodreads rating: 3.81
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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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Poetic meditation on transience and domesticity.

If you're drawn to lyrical prose and deep reflections on family and belonging, "Housekeeping" would resonate with you. Marilynne Robinson crafts a world where the mundane reveals its own peculiar beauty, and where the unsteady journey towards understanding one's place in the world is laid bare in all its poignant complexity. Expect to be moved and to contemplate long after the last page.

  • 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.