Housekeeping
by Marilynne Robinson
Taste attributes: dramafamilyslowfresh & originalheavylinearglossyenclosedemotive & stirringtroubled leadshuman spirit/resilience/survivalunlikely connections
Boxlist takeA moving, small-scale novel: fresh and serious. Best if you like stories that hit hard.
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Pace: balanced · Originality: fresh · Tone: balanced · Weight: heavy · Realism: balanced · Story: balanced · Structure: balanced · Look: balanced · Scale: confined · Emotional punch: stirringHow we score
Open Library rating
3.9 / 5
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About This Book
Winner of the Pen/Hemingway Award 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, the eccentric and remote sister of their dead mother.
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- Author
- Marilynne Robinson
- Published
- 1980
- Pages
- 224
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- Open Library
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