{"product_id":"housekeeping-a-novel-fortieth-anniversary-edition","title":"Housekeeping: A Novel (Fortieth Anniversary Edition)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cb\u003eIn the plain-spokenness of its language, the grace and dignity of its characters, the simplicity of its story and its intimations of spiritual transcendence, \u003ci\u003eHousekeeping \u003c\/i\u003eis a book that transformed how I see my place in the world.\" - David Marchese, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Magazine \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Pen\/Hemingway Award\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA modern classic, Marilynne Robinson's \u003ci\u003eHousekeeping\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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 outsized landscape and extravagant weather, and chastened again by an awareness that the whole of human history had occurred elsewhere.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRuth and Lucille's struggle toward adulthood beautifully illuminates the price of loss and survival, and the dangerous and deep undertow of transcience.","brand":"Marilynne Robinson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52103218594093,"sku":"BS-8XD-769763","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/9781250769763-HD.jpg?v=1780261473","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/housekeeping-a-novel-fortieth-anniversary-edition","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}