Housekeeping

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Steeped in imagery of the bleak wintry landscape around them, the sisters' struggle towards adulthood is powerfully portrayed in a novel about loss, loneliness and transience. Abandoned by a succession of relatives, the sisters find themselves in the care of Sylvie, the remote and enigmatic sister of their dead mother. A modern classic, 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 New Yorker'I just adore this book and have probably reread it a hundred times. https://libro. The good news is you can buy them on The Feminist Bookshop audiobooks page! Format: Paperback Published: in UK in 2005 Publisher: Faber & Faber Pages: 224 Language: English ISBN 13: 9780571230082 ISBN 10: 0571230083 Edition: Main Winner of the Pen/Hemingway Award A modern classic, '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.

• Paperback: 352 pages
• ISBN-13: 978-1250060655
• Publisher: Picador (November 3, 2015)