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Housekeeping Paperback – 1 December 2005

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Acclaimed on publication as a contemporary classic, Housekeeping is the story of Ruth and Lucille, orphans growing up in the small desolate town of Fingerbone in the vast northwest of America.

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.
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    1 December 2005
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    12.6 x 1.3 x 19.8 cm
  6. ISBN-10
    0571230083
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0571230082
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Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson's first novel, was acclaimed by critics and later filmed by Bill Forsyth. She is also the author of Gilead, winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and a non-fiction title, the controversial Mother Country. Marilynne Robinson lives in New England.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Faber Paperback; 1st edition (1 December 2005)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 224 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0571230083
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0571230082
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.6 x 1.3 x 19.8 cm
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Marilynne Robinson is the author of the bestselling novels "Lila," "Home" (winner of the Orange Prize), "Gilead" (winner of the Pulitzer Prize), and "Housekeeping" (winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award).

She has also written four books of nonfiction, "When I Was a Child I Read Books," "Absence of Mind," "Mother Country" and "The Death of Adam." She teaches at the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop.

She has been given honorary degrees from Brown University, the University of the South, Holy Cross, Notre Dame, Amherst, Skidmore, and Oxford University. She was also elected a fellow of Mansfield College, Oxford University.

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vivian garner
5.0 out of 5 stars If you like her other books, you will like this one.
Reviewed in Australia on 15 December 2022
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Marilyn Robinson is always thought provoking and her characters are portrayed more through their thoughts than their actions. If you like a slow moving, dense, deeply analytical story, this is for you. If you want fast paced action and lots of plot twists, maybe not. I love it.
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3.0 out of 5 stars I enjoyed other books by this author so expected to enjoy ...
Reviewed in Australia on 2 June 2016
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I enjoyed other books by this author so expected to enjoy this one. Unfortunately I am finding it heavy going. I have not finished it but have put it aside for a later date.
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sally tarbox
5.0 out of 5 stars Magical prose
Reviewed in Australia on 15 August 2018
An utterly compelling read, beautifully written: I want to say 'poetic', but I tend to abandon books of that description, and I loved this - so let's just say gorgeous prose.
Narrator Ruthie describes life on the edge of a lake in Idaho. After a city upbringing with her mother, she and sister Lucille are dropped off with their grandma. Ultimately they find themselves cared for by unstable aunt Sylvie; the watery environs are a constant theme (floods; strange boat trips; thoughts of the two family members who lost their lives to the lake.) Meanwhile the dysfunctional family are at odds with society as Sylvie turns grandma's home into a hoarder's paradise and the girls play truant by the lake. Ultimately the exclusive friendship of the two erodes as Lucille seeks a conventional teenage life elsewhere, while Ruthie allies herself with Sylvie...
It' a weird read; I read and enjoyed Robinson's 'Home' but this is a much more unusual and dreamy work.
I can't imagine being able to write like this- it's fabulous!
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terence dunne
5.0 out of 5 stars I had no idea what to expect
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 11 February 2024
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I chose this book having no idea what to expect . Having read Gilead many years ago and not having been very fond of it at all I decided it was time to look at Marilyn Robinsons work again .
Well I'm so glad I did . This is like no other book I have ever read . Wonderful prose all delivered in a low key manner , yet compelling and strange in a way that drew me on and on .
This is by no means an uplifting story , far from it. Yet when I finished the book that's exactly how I felt .
Totally uplifted .
I appreciate mine may be a rare response , but well for me one word sums it up .
BEAUTIFUL
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5.0 out of 5 stars Housekeeping
Reviewed in Canada on 12 February 2021
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I read the book. I was fascinated by the title as Housekeeping seems such a mundane thing to do. Yet, we cant live without it, can we. We need to put our house in order. In this story, the house is broken, the relationships tenuous and fractured. Its a good read.
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Giulietta Rovera
5.0 out of 5 stars Che il prodotto corrisponda alla descrizione
Reviewed in Italy on 24 May 2022
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Libro bellissimo scritto da una grande scrittrice: Marilynne Robinson
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4.0 out of 5 stars l'histoire résumé du livre
Reviewed in France on 25 September 2018
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pour mon cours de littérature anglaise
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1.0 out of 5 stars 装丁に難あり
Reviewed in Japan on 28 August 2020
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ほとんど新品の状態で届きましたが、本の装丁が悪く、開いたページが次々はがれてしまい、管理が大変です。出版社の問題だとは思いますが、これほどほどけやすいペーパーバックは初めてです。
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