| Title:
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HOUSEKEEPING
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| By: |
Marilynne Robinson |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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| ISBN 10: |
0571230083 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780571230082 |
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| Publisher: |
FABER & FABER |
| Pub. date: |
7 July, 2005 |
| Pages: |
224 |
| Description: |
'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. |
| Synopsis: |
Housekeeping is the story of Ruth and Lucille, orphans growing up in the small desolate town of Fingerbone in the vast northwest of America. Abandoned by a succession of relatives, the sisters find themselves in the care of Sylvie, the remote and enigmatic sister of their dead mother. Steeped in imagery of the bleak wintry landscape around them, the sisters' struggle towards adulthood is powerfully portrayed in a novel about loss, loneliness and transience. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Faber & Faber |
| Returns: |
Returnable |