Value: $3.84
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Comely: A e book that has been learn but is in appropriate situation. Very minimal damage to the cover in conjunction with scuff |
Newsletter Year: | 2004 |
| Format: | Paperback | Language: | English |
| ISBN: |
9780312424091 |
EAN: |
9780312424091 |
| Synopsis | |
| A unique traditional, Housekeeping is the story of Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, who develop up haphazardly, first under the care of their competent grandmother, then of two comically bumbling colossal-aunts, and finally of Sylvie, their eccentric and much away aunt. The family dwelling is within the exiguous A ways West town of Fingerbone save on a glacial lake, the same lake the assign their grandfather died in a spectacular prepare damage, and their mother drove off a cliff to her loss of life. It’s miles a town “chastened by an outsized panorama and indulgent climate, and chastened all every other time by an consciousness that the overall of human historical past had occurred in other locations.” Ruth and Lucille’s battle towards adulthood fantastically illuminates the value of loss and survival, and the harmful and deep undertow of transience. | |
| Product Identifiers | |
| ISBN-10 | 0312424094 |
| ISBN-13 | 9780312424091 |
| eBay Product ID (ePID) | 30789892 |
| Key Predominant points | |
| Author | Marilynne Robinson |
| Number Of Pages | 224 pages |
| Format | Paperback |
| Newsletter Date | 2004-11-01 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Picador |
| Newsletter Year | 2004 |
| Extra Predominant points | |
| Copyright Date | 1980 |
| Dimensions | |
| Weight | 6.9 Oz19459027] |
| Height | 0.6 In. |
| Width | 5.5 In. |
| Dimension | 8.2 In. |
| Map Target market | |
| Crew | Trade |
| Classification Diagram | |
| LCCN | 80-024061 |
| LC Classification Number | PS3568.03125H6 1981 |
| Dewey Decimal | 813/.54 |
| Dewey Edition | 19 |
| Opinions | |
| “So right, so distilled, so handsome that one would no longer want to leave out any pleasure it’ll also yield.” –Le Anne Schreiber, The New York Times Book Overview “Right here’s a first contemporary that sounds as if the creator has been treasuring it up all her existence . . . It’s doubtless you’ll perchance well in actuality feel within the e book a gathering voluptuous release of self belief, a overjoyed shock at the unexpected capacities of language, a close, cautious fondness for folks that we knowing handiest saints felt.” –Anatole Broyard, The New York Times “I chanced on myself reading slowly, than more slowlythis is now no longer a contemporary to be hurried through, for every sentence is a pride.” –Doris Lessing Right here’s a first contemporary that sounds as if the creator has been treasuring it up all her existence…It’s doubtless you’ll perchance well in actuality feel within the e book a gathering voluptuous release of self belief, a overjoyed shock at the unexpected capacities of language, a close, cautious fondness for folks that we knowing handiest saints felt. I chanced on myself reading slowly, than more slowly–here’s now no longer a contemporary to be hurried through, for every sentence is a pride. | |
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