num_pages: 219
description: Housekeeping is a novel by Marilynne Robinson, published in 1980. The novel was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (which Robinson would eventually win for her second novel, Gilead), and awarded the PEN/Hemingway Award for best first novel.In 2003, the Guardian Unlimited named Housekeeping one of the 100 greatest novels of all time, describing the book as "Haunting, poetic story, drowned in water and light, about three generations of women." Time magazine also included the novel in its TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005.
language: English
title: Housekeeping
titlecomplete: Housekeeping
genres: Literature, Literary Fiction, Coming Of Age, Contemporary, American, Novels, Fiction, Classics, Audiobook, Family
ratings_count: 51798
places: The United States of America
awards: awardedAt: 378720000000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 378720000000
name: PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, awardedAt: 378720000000
name: Rosenthal Family Foundation Award, awardedAt: 410256000000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Fiction (Paperback), awardedAt: 378720000000
name: PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel
publisher: Faber & Faber