Housekeeping
These pocket-sized titles are stunning....They make the perfect stocking stuffers! - MetroBought together or separately, these fiction titles are ideal stocking stuffers for the literature lover. -…
Specifikacia Housekeeping
These pocket-sized titles are stunning....They make the perfect stocking stuffers! - MetroBought together or separately, these fiction titles are ideal stocking stuffers for the literature lover. - USA TodayNewly reissued as a Picador Modern Classic, Marilynne Robinson's brilliant, PEN/Hemingway Award-winning first novelHousekeeping 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