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ZIN Product Number: 10084461
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Paperback, 219 pages
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374525188
Release Date: Jan 7, 1981
Average Reader Review:  (Based on 2 reviews.)
| |  | | | From The Publisher
The story of Ruth, who grows up, with her sister Lucille, under the care of her grandmother, two comically fumbling great-aunts, and the transient sister of her dead mother. Housekeeping is a quiet, humorous book that turns eccentricity into poetry, praises the orphan in us all, and transforms everyday life into a kind of sacred myth.
| | | | Annotation
Marilyn Robinson's acclaimed coming of age story set in Idaho mountain lake country.
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 | | | | | Number of Reviews: 2 Average Rating:
reconceptualising 'femaleness'
-- A reviewer, August 3, 1999
Also Recommended: A thousand acres
Very poetic and peaceful to read.
-- Wangie, an undergraduate student in S.C, October 6, 1999
Also Recommended: Song of Solomon by Morrison, Toni
| | | | The Reader's Catalog
"A first novel that one reads as slowly as poetry--and for the same reason: the language is so precise, so distilled, so beautiful that one doesn't want to miss any pleasure it might yield up to patience"--NY Times
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Fiction, Mothers, Girls, Aunts, Death, Eccentrics and eccentricities, Fiction, Mothers, Girls, Aunts, Death, Eccentrics and eccentricities, Fiction, Fiction - General
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