{"product_id":"housekeeping-fortieth-anniversary-edition-a-novel","title":"Housekeeping (Robinson - paperback)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor\u003c\/strong\u003e: Marilynne Robinson\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN\u003c\/strong\u003e: 9781250769763\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding\u003c\/strong\u003e: paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSection\u003c\/strong\u003e: Fiction\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA modern classic, Marilynne Robinson's \u003cem\u003eHousekeeping\u003c\/em\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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fiction","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":42938770620640,"sku":"Books:9781250769763n","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0628\/5911\/6768\/files\/81EV7PltRvL._AC_UY327_FMwebp_QL65.webp?v=1713457006","url":"https:\/\/theswordandshovel.com\/products\/housekeeping-fortieth-anniversary-edition-a-novel","provider":"Sword \u0026 Shovel (403)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}