Housekeeping - (Picador Modern Classics) by Marilynne Robinson (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"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 with a design that's both small enough to fi t in your pocket and unique enough to stand out on your bookshelf. "--<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>These pocket-sized titles are stunning....They make the perfect stocking stuffers! - <i>Metro <br></i><br>Bought together or separately, these fiction titles are ideal stocking stuffers for the literature lover. - </b><i><b>USA Today</b><br></i><b><br>Newly reissued as a Picador Modern Classic, Marilynne Robinson's brilliant, PEN/Hemingway Award-winning first novel</b> <p/><i>Housekeeping</i> 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. <p/><b>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 - <i>The Virgin Suicides</i> by Jeffrey Eugenides, <i>Steppenwolf</i> by Herman Hesse, <i>Jesus' Son</i> by Denis Johnson, and <i>Housekeeping</i> 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.</b></p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"So precise, so distilled, so beautiful that one doesn't want to miss any pleasure it might yield." --<i>The New York Times Book Review</i> <p/><i></i>These tiny little titles are pocket-sized, shiny, and gorgeous. Featuring authors like Marilynne Robinson and Jeffery Eugenides, they're the kind of books you'll have to own the entire set of, because they're just that pretty -- and it happens to be lovely that they fit in just about every bag you own. You can't be caught anywhere without a book, of course<i>. </i>-- Julia Seales<i>, Bustle</i> <p/>Our books today are the neatest little things you'll see in the rest of 2015's book-year: a set of Modern Classics from Picador Press, done up in a neat bow! -- <i>Open Letters Monthly</i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>MARILYNNE ROBINSON</b> is the author of <i>Gilead</i>, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and <i>Home</i>, winner of the Orange Prize and a finalist for the National Book Award. <i>Housekeeping</i> won the PEN/Hemingway Award. Her nonfiction includes <i>Absence of Mind</i>, <i>The Death of Adam</i>, <i>Mother Country</i>, nominated for a National Book Award, and <i>When I Was a Child I Read Books</i>. She teaches at the Iowa Writers' Workshop.
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