{"product_id":"housekeeping-by-marilynne-robinson-9781250769763","title":"Housekeeping","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"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, \u003cem\u003eHousekeeping\u003c\/em\u003e is a book that transformed how I see my place in the world.\" - David Marchese, \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the Pen\/Hemingway Award\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA modern classic, Marilynne Robinson's \u003cem\u003eHousekeeping\u003c\/em\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\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRuth and Lucille's struggle toward adulthood beautifully illuminates the price of loss and survival, and the dangerous and deep undertow of transience.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Macmillan Publishers New Zealand Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47642966884588,"sku":"9781250769763","price":49.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/5781b1bce716cb1446df1c6d8ed6d347.jpg?v=1779171186","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/housekeeping-by-marilynne-robinson-9781250769763","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}