{"product_id":"housekeeping-fortieth-anniversary-edition","title":"Housekeeping (Fortieth Anniversary Edition)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Pen\/Hemingway Award\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA modern classic, Marilynne Robinson's \u003ci\u003eHousekeeping\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRuth and Lucille's struggle toward adulthood beautifully illuminates the price of loss and survival, and the dangerous and deep undertow of transcience.\r","brand":"Marilynne Robinson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44440538218732,"sku":"9781250769763","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9781250769763.jpg?v=1719667582","url":"https:\/\/intl.allstora.com\/products\/housekeeping-fortieth-anniversary-edition","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}