{"product_id":"housekeeping-9781250060655","title":"Housekeeping","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"These pocket-sized titles are stunning....They make the perfect stocking stuffers!\" - \u003ci\u003eMetro \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Bought together or separately, these fiction titles are ideal stocking stuffers for the literature lover.\" - \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNewly reissued as a Picador Modern Classic, Marilynne Robinson's brilliant, PEN\/Hemingway Award-winning first novel\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eHousekeeping\u003c\/i\u003e 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 transience. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eFor more than twenty years, Picador has been producing beautifully packaged literary fiction and nonfiction books from Manhattan's Flatiron Building. Our Twentieth Anniversary Modern Classics line pairs iconic books - \u003ci\u003eThe Virgin Suicides\u003c\/i\u003e by Jeffrey Eugenides, \u003ci\u003eSteppenwolf\u003c\/i\u003e by Herman Hesse, \u003ci\u003eJesus' Son\u003c\/i\u003e by Denis Johnson, and \u003ci\u003eHousekeeping\u003c\/i\u003e by Marilynne Robinson - with a design that's both small enough to fit in your pocket and unique enough to stand out on your bookshelf.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarilynne Robinson\u003c\/b\u003e is the recipient of a 2012 National Humanities Medal, awarded by President Barack Obama, for \"her grace and intelligence in writing.\" She is the author of \u003ci\u003eGilead\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award; \u003ci\u003eHome\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Orange Prize and the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Prize; and \u003ci\u003eLila\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her first novel, \u003ci\u003eHousekeeping\u003c\/i\u003e, won the Hemingway Foundation\/PEN Award. Robinson's nonfiction books include \u003ci\u003eThe Givenness of Things\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWhen I Was a Child I Read Books\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAbsence of Mind, The Death of Adam\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eMother Country\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in Iowa City, Iowa.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50603124719890,"sku":"9781250060655","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_19256b6c-cfc9-49a0-b32a-65eb7c1f08ce.jpg?v=1732245024","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/housekeeping-9781250060655","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}