Housekeeping
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On Sale:
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08/07/2004
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Formats:
Trade paperback
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THIS HIGHLY ACCLAIMED and award-winning novel is the story of two orphans: Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, growing up haphazardly under the care of various bumbling relatives. The two girls finally end up in a small town nestled next to a glacial lake in Idaho, under the guardianship of Sylvie, their odd and rather remote aunt. Ruth’s and Lucille’s struggle to define themselves as women beautifully illuminates the price of loss and survival, and the dangerous undertow of transience. Written in Robinson’s vibrantly poetic prose, Housekeeping reaches the orphan in all of us and transforms everyday life into a sacred experience.
PRAISE FOR HOUSEKEEPING
“Brilliantly portrays the impermanence of all things, especially beauty and happiness.” Time
“So precise, so distilled, so beautiful that one doesn’t want to miss any pleasure it might yield.”The New York Times Book Review
“Extraordinary.... Marilynne Robinson uses language so exquisitely.... Every sentence [is] made just right.... Housekeeping proves that fine fiction is still being written.”
The Washington Post Book World
“I found myself reading slowly, then more slowly—this is not a novel to be hurried through, for every sentence is a delight.” Doris Lessing
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When I Was a Child I Read Books
Since the 1981 publication of Marilynne Robinson’s novel Housekeeping —a stunning debut that was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize—she has built a reputation not only as a writer of sharp, subtly moving prose, but also as a rigorous thinker and incisive essayist. Her compelling and demanding...
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In 1980, Marilynne Robinson drew the devotion of readers with her debut novel, Housekeeping , a book that won the PEN/Hemingway Award and has become a modern classic. In 2004, her second novel, Gilead , was published to critical acclaim and won both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the...
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