Housekeeping: A Novel
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Winner of the Pen/Hemingway Award
A modern classic, 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 th... More
A modern classic, 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 th... More
Book Information
Publisher | Farrar Straus & Giroux |
Binding | Paperback (43 editions) |
Reading Level | Uncategorized |
# of Pages | 224 |
ISBN-10 | 0374525188 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0374525187 |
Publication Date | 09/30/1997 |
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