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By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Home and Gilead, a modern American masterpiece by an author whose work ''defines universal truths about what it means to be human'' (Barack Obama)

''A classic.'' Guardian
''A masterpiece.'' The New Yorker
''It''s pretty much a perfect novel.'' David Nicholls
''I just adore this book and have probably reread it a hundred times.'' Michelle Zauner

Ruth and Lucille are 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 masterful modern classic exploring loss, loneliness and transience.

Housekeeping

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    A Paperback / softback by Marilynne Robinson

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      Publisher Faber & Faber
      Published 7 July 2005
      ISBN-13 9780571230082
      978-0571230082
      ISBN-10 0571230083
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      Fiction Contemporary Fiction

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Home and Gilead, a modern American masterpiece by an author whose work ''defines universal truths about what it means to be human'' (Barack Obama)

      ''A classic.'' Guardian
      ''A masterpiece.'' The New Yorker
      ''It''s pretty much a perfect novel.'' David Nicholls
      ''I just adore this book and have probably reread it a hundred times.'' Michelle Zauner

      Ruth and Lucille are 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 masterful modern classic exploring loss, loneliness and transience.

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