Housekeeping (novel)
1980 novel by Marilynne Robinson / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Housekeeping is a 1980 novel by Marilynne Robinson. The novel was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and awarded the PEN/Hemingway Award for best first novel.
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Author | Marilynne Robinson |
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Country | United States |
Language | English |
Published | 1980 Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Media type | Print (hard & paperback) |
Pages | 219 pp |
ISBN | 0-374-17313-3 |
OCLC | 6602826 |
813/.54 19 | |
LC Class | PS3568.O3125 H6 1980 |
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In 2003, Guardian Unlimited named Housekeeping one of the 100 greatest novels of all time,[1] 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.[2]