Housekeeping
Robinson, Marilynne2005
Books, Manuscripts
Find it!
From the Orange Prize winning author of Home and Gilead. 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.
Main title:
Housekeeping / Marilynne Robinson
Author:
Imprint:
Faber, 2005.
Collation:
19.8 cm.
Notes:
Paperback. B-format paperback.Originally published: New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1980; London: Faber, 1981.
Audience:
General (US: Trade).
ISBN:
05712300839780571230082
Dewey class:
GF
Local class:
FT PBKAFBCAFPBK
Language:
English
Subject:
Index terms:
FBC: Modern fictionFiction in EnglishAmerican writersd1945-Texts
BRN:
157723
More Information: