{"product_id":"housekeeping-hardcover","title":"Housekeeping - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMarilynne Robinson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThese pocket-sized titles are stunning....They make the perfect stocking stuffers! - \u003ci\u003eMetro \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBought 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\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMARILYNNE ROBINSON\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eGilead\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and \u003ci\u003eHome\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Orange Prize and a finalist for the National Book Award. \u003ci\u003eHousekeeping\u003c\/i\u003e won the PEN\/Hemingway Award. Her nonfiction includes \u003ci\u003eAbsence of Mind\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Death of Adam\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMother Country\u003c\/i\u003e, nominated for a National Book Award, and \u003ci\u003eWhen I Was a Child I Read Books\u003c\/i\u003e. She teaches at the Iowa Writers' Workshop.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 352\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 5.7 x 3.6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 03, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42701937836095,"sku":"9781250060655","price":21.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/04b5a19434993e1f3a8d7c9202dd543f.webp?v=1765022525","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/housekeeping-hardcover","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}