Housekeeping - Hardcover

Robinson, Marilynne

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0374173133 ISBN 13: 9780374173135

Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1981

Synopsis

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. 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.

About this title

Review:

'I found myself reading slowly, than more slowly--this is not a novel to be hurried through, for every sentence is a delight.'

From the Publisher:

From the Orange Prize winning author of HOME

About this edition

• Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
• Publication date: 1981
• ISBN 10: 0374173133
• ISBN 13: 9780374173135
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 232