An edition of Housekeeping (1980)

Housekeeping

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An edition of Housekeeping (1980)

Housekeeping

  • 3.8 (11 ratings) ·
  • 75 Want to read
  • 5 Currently reading
  • 18 Have read

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.

Publish Date
Publisher
Bantam
Language
English
Pages
219

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Edition Availability
Cover of: Housekeeping
Housekeeping
2015, Faber & Faber, Limited
in English
Cover of: Housekeeping
Housekeeping
1987, Bantam
in English
Cover of: HOUSEKEEPING
HOUSEKEEPING
March 1, 1984, Bantam
Mass Market Paperback in English
Cover of: La Maison de Noé
La Maison de Noé: roman
1983, Albin Michel
in French
Cover of: Housekeeping
Housekeeping
1982, Bantam
in English
Cover of: Housekeeping
Housekeeping
1980, Picador
in English - 1st Picador ed.

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Edition Notes

A Bantam windstone book.

Gift of Fairhaven College

Published in
Toronto, New York

The Physical Object

Pagination
219 p. ;
Number of pages
219

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL15516745M
Internet Archive
housekeeping00robi
ISBN 10
0553262386
OCLC/WorldCat
17914300
Library Thing
2200
Amazon ID (ASIN)
Goodreads
1074109

First Sentence

"My name is Ruth."

Work Description

Marilynne Robinson's first novel.

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