An edition of Housekeeping
(1980)
Housekeeping
1st Picador ed.
by Marilynne Robinson
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Ruthie and her younger sister, Lucille, grow toward adulthood under the untraditional care of Sylvie, the transient sister of their dead mother, in Fingerbone, the small Far West town on the glacial lake where their grandfather died in a train wreck and their mother drove off a cliff.
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American fiction, Aunts, Death, Eccentrics and eccentricities, Fiction, Girls, Mothers, Family life, Movie-TV Tie-In - General, Fiction / General, Movie/Tv Tie-Ins, Movie / TV Tie-Ins, Fiction, general, Reading Level-Grade 7, Reading Level-Grade 9, Reading Level-Grade 8, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 10, Reading Level-Grade 12, Sisters, Sisters, fiction, Fiction, family life, general, Fictional WorksPlaces
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Originally published: New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 1980.
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First Sentence
"My name is Ruth."
Work Description
Marilynne Robinson's first novel.
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