Housekeeping: A Novel

Housekeeping: A Novel
by Marilynne Robinson

Housekeeping: A Novel
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Author: Marilynne Robinson
Edition: Paperback
Published: 2004-11-01
ISBN: 0312424094
Number of pages: 224
Publisher: Picador

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Book Review: One of the best novels of this century
Summary: 5 Stars

Housekeeping, told from a young girl's point of view, is one of the best-written novels of this century, and should be on any list of bests. It is impossible to read this book quickly, because the quality of each sentence is so amazing that the novel forces you to slow down and truly read. Robinson's mind is extraordinary, and she composes sentences in completely unpredictable ways, leading you in directions you never otherwise would go - her juxtapositioning of metaphors and similes is awe-inspiring.

A tale of losses and discovery, Housekeeping is not as well known as it should be. If you have not read this yet, a mind-blowing journey awaits.

Summary of Housekeeping: A Novel

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, their eccentric and remote aunt. The family house is in the small Far West town of Fingerbone set on a glacial lake, 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 transience.

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