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Housekeeping
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4 out of 5
Based on 7,490 Ratings and 1,457 Reviews

Book Description
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
Book Information
PublisherBantam Books for Young Readers
BindingMass Market Paperback (43 editions)
Reading LevelUncategorized
# of PagesN/A
ISBN-100553205757
ISBN-13978-0553205756
Publication Date03/1982
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About Marilynne Robinson (Author) : Marilynne Robinson is a published author. Some of the published credits of Marilynne Robinson include Gilead (Unabridged), Housekeeping (Unabridged), Gilead.
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