Housekeeping av Marilynne Robinson

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<p>"<b>In the plain-spokenness of its language, the grace and dignity of its characters, the simplicity of its story and its intimations of spiritual transcendence, <i>Housekeeping </i>is a book that transformed how I see my place in the world." - David Marchese, <i>The New York Times</i> Magazine<br><br></b><b>Winner of the Pen/Hemingway Award</b><br><br><b>A modern classic, Marilynne Robinson''s <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. </b><br><br>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 awaren