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Housekeeping

Marilynne Robinson

Paperback | Pages: 219 pages

Rating: 3.82 | 38417 Users | 4993 Reviews

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Original Title:	Housekeeping
ISBN:	0312424094 (ISBN13: 9780312424091)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	United States of America
Literary Awards:	Pulitzer Prize Nominee for Fiction (1982), PEN/Hemingway Foundation Award (1982), PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Nominee (1982), Rosenthal Family Foundation Award (1982), National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (Paperback) (1983)

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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, their eccentric and remote aunt. The family house is in the small Far West town of Fingerbone set on a glacial lake, 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." Ruth and Lucille's struggle toward adulthood beautifully illuminates the price of loss and survival, and the dangerous and deep undertow of transience.

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Title	:	Housekeeping
Author	:	Marilynne Robinson
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 219 pages
Published	:	November 1st 2004 by Picador USA (first published 1980)
Categories	:	Fiction. Novels. Literary Fiction. Classics. Literature

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I was craving a book like this...had wanted to read it forever. I can't express how much I appreciate this book. The story itself had me in the palm of my hands. The writing was so rich and breathtaking- I felt like I was being taken out to an expensive fine-dining experience-- savoring every bite. No POV alternating chapters - not a long-winded 500 page novel. This powerful novel with many themes: family, loss, death, abandonment, unconventional lifestyles, small towns, with memorable

Marilynne Robinson won great praise a couple years ago for "Gilead," and much was made of the fact that it had been 23 years since she had written her first novel, "Housekeeping." While this was an evocative tale about a family in an isolated rural area and the writing was often poetic, I found it a struggle to get through. Heavy on atmospherics and light on plot, it was the kind of book where I often found myself nodding off on mid-page. Not my cup of tea.

I'm getting better at abandoning books which don't give me much back. I bought this by mistake. I meant to buy Home, part of the Gilead trilogy. This is her first novel and for me has all the shortcomings of a first novel. It read like a short story fattened up with minutiae. There's little narrative drive; it has no muscle in its thighs. It floats gently along like some gossamer thing caught on the wind. It isn't bad but I found nothing compelling or distinctive about it. Having said that,

Fingerbone was never an impressive town. It was chastened by an outsized landscape and extravagant weather, and chastened again by an awareness that the whole of human history had occurred elsewhere.Oh dear. The above quote sums up how I feel about this book. My mind kept wondering elsewhere.Excruciating. Dull. I couldn't work up any enthusiasm for the characters or the storyline (was there one? it seemed to meander along).I struggle to admit defeat, but this one has (sadly) ended up on my DNF

written in exquisite detail, as everyone has noted, but a lot of the rest of what's been written in the more recent reviews i find sort of troubling and, frankly, misleading. recommended for 'women who like descriptive writing'? gross. this novel was given to me by a dude, and further recommended by a (male) writer i know-- a guy who counts earnest hemingway among his favorite writers-- as one of the best novels of the 20th century. this is not, as has been implied, some kind of lady-book.

About a girl who really hates to talk and never talks but the author can't stop babbling. She just goes on and on and on and on and on.The ending really sucks, just like the middle and the beginning.

"Perhaps all unsheltered people are angry in their hearts, and would like to break the roof, spine, and ribs, and smash the windows and flood the floor and spindle the curtains and bloat the couch." (237)Floods. Moments of homecoming. Departures. Boredom. Languid Days. School Days. Insufferable cold. Stasis...Like some passable modern take on "Little Women", it's filled to the brim with detailed reminiscences, though set in Washington State. Like a Jane Champion film; like some beloved 90s indie