*These pocket-sized titles are stunning....They make the perfect
stocking stuffers! - Metro
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Bought together or separately, these fiction titles are ideal stocking
stuffers for the literature lover. - *USA Today
Newly reissued as a Picador Modern Classic, Marilynne Robinson's
brilliant, PEN/Hemingway Award-winning first novel**
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. 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.
For 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 - The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides, Steppenwolf by
Herman Hesse, Jesus' Son by Denis Johnson, and Housekeeping 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.
