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Housekeeping An Introduction

Ruth and her sister Lucille are raised first by their grandmother, then two great-aunts and finally by their aunt Sylvie who is an eccentric living in the family house in the small town of Fingerbone. The sisters struggle through childhood trying to cope with the loss and transience that surrounds their lives.

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  • "Ruth and her sister Lucille are raised first by their grandmother, then two great-aunts and finally by their aunt Sylvie who is an eccentric living in the family house in the small town of Fingerbone. The sisters struggle through childhood trying to cope with the loss and transience that surrounds their lives."@en
  • "Following the lives of Ruth and her younger sister throughout their haphazard adventures. The sister's mother drove off a cliff to her death leaving the rest of the family to take care of them. First their grandmother, then their bumbling great-aunts, and finally Sylvie, their eccentric and remote aunt. Ruth and Lucille's struggle toward adulthood beautifully illuminates the price of loss and survival."@en
  • "A modern classic that "brilliantly portrays the impermanence of all things, especially beauty and happiness" (Paul Gray, 'Time'), '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, their eccentric and remote aunt. The family house is in the small Far West town of Fingerbone, which is set on a glacial lake, 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 gown "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"--Container."@en
  • "Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille grow up haphazardly, first under the care of their competent grandmother, then of two comically bumbling great-aunts, and finally of Sylvie, their eccentric and remote aunt. The family house is in the small Far West town of Fingerbone, which is set on a glacial lake, 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 gown "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."@en
  • "[This] 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, their eccentric and remote aunt. -Back cover."
  • "This is the story of Ruth, who grows up with her sister Lucille under the care of her competent grandmother, then of two comically fumbling great-aunts, and finally of Sylvie, the transient sister of her dead mother. The book is about the effort to "keep house," to keep anything at all, in a landscape and a community where nothing seems to persist except memory."@en
  • "Ruth and her sister Lucille are raised first by their grandmother, then two great-aunts and finally by their aunt Sylvie who is an eccentric living in the family house in the small town of Fingerbone. The sisters struggle through childhood trying to cope with the loss and transience that surrounds their very lives.--"@en
  • "The story of Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, who grow up haphazardly, first under the care of their competent grandmother, then of several aunts. Ruth and Lucille's struggle toward adulthood beautifully illuminates the price of loss and survival, and the dangerous and deep undertow of transience."@en
  • "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, their eccentric and remote aunt. The family house is in the small Far West town of Fingerbone, set on a glacial lake, 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."
  • "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, their eccentric and remote aunt. The family house is in the small Far West town of Fingerbone, set on a glacial lake, 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."@en

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  • "Domestic fiction"@en
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  • "Housekeeping An Introduction"@en
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