Housekeeping - Brossura

Robinson, Marilynne

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0374525188 ISBN 13: 9780374525187

Casa editrice: Noonday Pr, 1997

Riassunto

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. The 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." Ruth and Lucille's struggle toward adulthood beautifully illuminates the price of loss and survival, and the dangerous and deep undertow of transcience.

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L'autore:

Marilynne Robinson is also the author of Mother Country, an examination of Great Britain's role in the radioactive pollution of the world's environment. She teaches as the University of Iowa Writer's Program.

Product Description:

Book by Robinson Marilynne

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Noonday Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0374525188
• ISBN 13: 9780374525187
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile