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01797aam a2200301Ii 4500 001 77E4A9CCEAB411EB95DB475F3FECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210722010305 008 200813t20201980nyu 000 1 eng d 020 $a 0312424094 020 $a 9780312424091 020 $a 0374172080 020 $a 9780374172084 040 $a OClCo $b eng $e rda $c OClCo $d SKYRV $d SILO 100 1 $a Robinson, Marilynne, $e author. 245 10 $a Housekeeping / $c Marilynne Robinson. 250 $a Hardcover edition, [Fortieth Anniversary Edition] 264 1 $a New York : $b Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, $c 2020 300 $a 219 pages ; $c 22 cm. 520 $a "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."--Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Sisters $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Aunts $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Mothers $x Death $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Families $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Eccentrics and eccentricities $v Fiction. 941 $a 1 952 $l GEPG771 $d 20210722064443.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=77E4A9CCEAB411EB95DB475F3FECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search