{"product_id":"housekeeping-fortieth-anniversary-edition-1","title":"Housekeeping (Fortieth Anniversary Edition)","description":"\"In the plain-spokenness of its language, the grace and dignity of its characters, the simplicity of its story and its intimations of spiritual transcendence, Housekeeping is a book that transformed how I see my place in the world.\" - David Marchese, The New York Times Magazine\n\nWinner of the Pen\/Hemingway Award\n\nA modern classic, Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping 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.\n\nThe 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.\"\n\nRuth and Lucille's struggle toward adulthood beautifully illuminates the price of loss and survival, and the dangerous and deep undertow of transcience.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1250769760\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.1250769760.A\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Acceptable\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Robinson, Marilynne\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: This copy has clearly been enjoyed—expect noticeable shelf wear and some minor creases to the cover. Binding is strong, and all pages are legible. May contain previous library markings or stamps.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41662971904058,"sku":"DBV.1250769760.A","price":8.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/1250769760-0_03147f2b-4918-4c9a-ad7b-4012b81649ad.jpg?v=1789792042","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/housekeeping-fortieth-anniversary-edition-1","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}