{"product_id":"housekeeping-a-novel-fortieth-anniversary-edition-9781250769763","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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-11922250\"\u003eMarilynne Robinson\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Picador USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/04\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.30w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781250769763\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1250769760\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC019000\"\u003eLiterary\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC045020\"\u003eFamily Life | Siblings\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC084030\"\u003eWorld Literature | American | 20th Century\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarilynne Robinson\u003c\/b\u003e is the recipient of a 2012 National Humanities Medal, awarded by President Barack Obama, for \"her grace and intelligence in writing.\" She is the author of \u003ci\u003eGilead\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award; \u003ci\u003eHome\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Orange Prize and the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Prize; and \u003ci\u003eLila\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her first novel, \u003ci\u003eHousekeeping\u003c\/i\u003e, won the Hemingway Foundation\/PEN Award. Robinson's nonfiction books include \u003ci\u003eThe Givenness of Things\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWhen I Was a Child I Read Books\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAbsence of Mind, The Death of Adam\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eMother Country\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in Iowa City, Iowa.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48876528238829,"sku":"9781250769763","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/files\/img_b6f80859-da3d-477d-8b64-d10ba213b0f4.jpg?v=1760542709","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/housekeeping-a-novel-fortieth-anniversary-edition-9781250769763","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}