Housekeeping

By :"Marilynne Robinson"

Published on 2004-11-01 by Macmillan

Category :"Fiction"

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 \

Housekeeping

Lenght : 232

Language : en

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Housekeeping

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