Housekeeping

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Poetic prose captures struggle of loss and survival.

Recommended for those seeking lyrical, introspective fiction exploring the complexities of family and transience in small town America. Robinson's writing beautifully combines poetic prose with an examination of rural life and the bonds that hold us together and pull us apart.

  • Pulitzer Prize Nominee for Fiction (1982)
  • PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Nominee (1982)
  • Rosenthal Family Foundation Award (1982)
  • National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (Paperback) (1983)
  • PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel (1982)
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Housekeeping

Regular price RM51.05 MYR
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ISBN: 9781250060655
Estimated First-hand Retail Price: RM92.89 MYR
Date of Publication: 2015-11-03
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Literary Fiction, Contemporary
Related Topics: Classics, Literature
Goodreads rating: 3.81
(rated by 52839 readers)

Description

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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Poetic prose captures struggle of loss and survival.

Recommended for those seeking lyrical, introspective fiction exploring the complexities of family and transience in small town America. Robinson's writing beautifully combines poetic prose with an examination of rural life and the bonds that hold us together and pull us apart.

  • Pulitzer Prize Nominee for Fiction (1982)
  • PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Nominee (1982)
  • Rosenthal Family Foundation Award (1982)
  • National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (Paperback) (1983)
  • PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel (1982)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.