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'A classic.' Guardian

'A masterpiece.' The New Yorker

'I just adore this book and have probably reread it a hundred times.' Michelle Zauner

From the Orange Prize winning author of Home and Gilead.

Housekeeping is the story of Ruth and Lucille, orphans growing up in the small desolate town of Fingerbone in the vast northwest of America.

Abandoned by a succession of relatives, the sisters find themselves in the care of Sylvie, the remote and enigmatic sister of their dead mother. Steeped in imagery of the bleak wintry landscape around them, the sisters' struggle towards adulthood is powerfully portrayed in a novel about loss, loneliness and transience.

Housekeeping

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'A classic.' Guardian'A masterpiece.' The New Yorker'I just adore this book and have probably reread it a hundred times.' Michelle... Read more

    Publisher: Faber & Faber
    Publication Date: 07/07/2005
    ISBN13: 9780571230082, 978-0571230082
    ISBN10: 0571230083

    Number of Pages: 224

    Fiction , Contemporary Fiction

    Description

    'A classic.' Guardian

    'A masterpiece.' The New Yorker

    'I just adore this book and have probably reread it a hundred times.' Michelle Zauner

    From the Orange Prize winning author of Home and Gilead.

    Housekeeping is the story of Ruth and Lucille, orphans growing up in the small desolate town of Fingerbone in the vast northwest of America.

    Abandoned by a succession of relatives, the sisters find themselves in the care of Sylvie, the remote and enigmatic sister of their dead mother. Steeped in imagery of the bleak wintry landscape around them, the sisters' struggle towards adulthood is powerfully portrayed in a novel about loss, loneliness and transience.

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