Housekeeping
By: Marilynne Robinson.
Edition: 1st Picador ed.
Publisher: Picador
Published: 1980
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 219
ISBN-13: 9780312424091
Subjects: American fiction.
Description: Ruthie and her younger sister, Lucille, grow toward adulthood under the untraditional care of Sylvie, the transient sister of their dead mother, in Fingerbone, the small Far West town on the glacial lake where their grandfather died in a train wreck and their mother drove off a cliff.
Notes: Originally published: New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 1980.