{"product_id":"housekeeping-a-novel-fortieth-anniversary-edition-9781250769763","title":"Housekeeping: A Novel (Fortieth Anniversary Edition)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cb\u003eIn the plain-spokenness of its language, the grace and dignity of its characters, the simplicity of its story and its intimations of spiritual transcendence, \u003ci\u003eHousekeeping \u003c\/i\u003eis a book that transformed how I see my place in the world.\" - David Marchese, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Magazine \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Pen\/Hemingway Award\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA modern classic, Marilynne Robinson's \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. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRuth and Lucille's struggle toward adulthood beautifully illuminates the price of loss and survival, and the dangerous and deep undertow of transcience.\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":50575770091794,"sku":"9781250769763","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1541f0ef-e3e0-4ea6-a4a8-b239974d62ba.jpg?v=1731987838","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/housekeeping-a-novel-fortieth-anniversary-edition-9781250769763","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}