Housekeeping: Faber Modern Classics

Author(s): Marilynne Robinson

Allen & Unwin Fiction | Contemporary

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.

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Issued into the launch list of Faber Modern Classics, publishing in April 2015

Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson's first novel, was acclaimed by critics and nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. She lives in New England and is the winner of the 2009 Orange Prize for Fiction.

General Fields

  • : 9780571322756
  • : Faber
  • : Faber Paperback
  • : 0.29
  • : April 2015
  • : 198mm X 129mm
  • : April 2015
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : 813/.54
  • : English
  • : Paperback
  • : Marilynne Robinson