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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 ...Show synopsisA 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.Hide synopsis
Housekeeping (Farrar Straus Giroux) – Hardcover (2005)
by
Marilynne Robinson
Hardcover, Farrar Straus Giroux 2005
English
219 pages
ISBN: 0374173133 ISBN-13: 9780374173135
Winner of the Pen/Hemingway Award 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. ...Show moreWinner of the Pen/Hemingway Award 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 transcience.Hide
Description:Acceptable. Well-worn copy. Mild to moderate water damage to...Acceptable. Well-worn copy. Mild to moderate water damage to text pages. Remainder mark on text page edges. Book is ACCEPTABLE with noted wear to cover and pages. Binding intact. May contain highlighting, inscriptions or notations. We offer a no-hassle guarantee on all our items. Orders generally ship by the next business day. Default Text.
Description:Good/Good ONLY. 219pp. Book QUITE photo-offset from DJ, with a...Good/Good ONLY. 219pp. Book QUITE photo-offset from DJ, with a little MOLD to end papers, minor damplines. P/C DJ has 1.5" tear, several 1/4" tear This doesn't look that bad 'on the shelf' but trust me, there's a reason it's a good $50 less than the other 1980 1st editions out there.
Description:Good. 0374173133 Used book, in good condition |No supplements |...Good. 0374173133 Used book, in good condition |No supplements | Normal wear to cover and spine | Page markings | Inventory sticker present | Satisfaction guaranteed!
Description:Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 0374173133. The author's...Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 0374173133. The author's first book. Second printing. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper, else very good in a very good (a bit sun faded along spine, edge worn with a few short edge tears) dust jacket.
I bought this book for a graduate class Fall of 2007 but I didn't have to read it so it lingered on my shelf for quite some time. I'm not entirely sure why but I always told myself when I had the time I was going to read this novel. Perhaps it was because of the haunting picture on the cover, with ...
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