Housekeeping
(Large Print)
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Prince Frederick, Md. : RB Large Print, 2005.
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Location | Call Number | Status |
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Greenwood Lake Public Library - Adult Fiction | Robinson, M. | On Shelf |
Middletown-Thrall Public Library District - Adult Large Type Fiction | LP ROBINSON | On Shelf |
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Published
Prince Frederick, Md. : RB Large Print, 2005.
Format
Large Print
Physical Desc
pages (large print) ; cm.
Language
English
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General Note
Originally published: New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 1980.
Description
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, their eccentric and remote aunt. The family house is in the small Far West town of Fingerbone set on a glacial lake, 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.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Robinson, M. (2005). Housekeeping . RB Large Print.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Robinson, Marilynne. 2005. Housekeeping. RB Large Print.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Robinson, Marilynne. Housekeeping RB Large Print, 2005.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Robinson, Marilynne. Housekeeping RB Large Print, 2005.
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