Ebook {Epub PDF} Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson

After their grandmother’s death, the girls enter the care of their anxious spinster great-aunts Lily and Nona, and then at last their mother’s sister, Sylvie, comes to Fingerbone to take up housekeeping and look after them. Sylvie is eccentric and odd, and has been living for years as a transient drifter. Marilynne Robinson is the author of the bestselling novels "Lila," "Home" (winner of the Orange Prize), "Gilead" (winner of the Pulitzer Prize), and "Housekeeping" (winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award). She has also written four books of nonfiction, "When I Was a Child I Read Books," "Absence of Mind," "Mother Country" and "The Death of Adam."Cited by: 2.  · Housekeeping is a novel by Marilynne Robinson, published in Ruthie narrates the story of how she and her younger sister Lucille are raised by a succession of relatives in the fictional town of Fingerbone, Idaho. Eventually their aunt Sylvie (who has /5(K).

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Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping () tells the story of Ruthie, a quiet, friendless girl living in a remote Idaho town called Fingerbone. The train that travels into the cold mountains of Fingerbone crosses a lake that has claimed the lives of Ruthie's grandfather by accident and her mother by suicide, leaving Ruthie and her younger sister Lucille with their grandmother, Sylvia Foster. Marilynne Robinson is the author of the bestselling novels "Lila," "Home" (winner of the Orange Prize), "Gilead" (winner of the Pulitzer Prize), and "Housekeeping" (winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award). She has also written four books of nonfiction, "When I Was a Child I Read Books," "Absence of Mind," "Mother Country" and "The Death of Adam.". The best novels: No 92 – Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson () Marilynne Robinson’s tale of orphaned sisters and their oddball aunt in a remote Idaho town is admired by everyone from.