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Housekeeping [sound recording] / Marilynne Robinson

By:

Robinson, Marilynne

Contributor(s):

Royce, Becket

Material type: Sound

SoundPublication details: New York : Audio Renaissance : Distributed by Holtzbrinck Publishers , p2005, c1980.Description: 5 sound discs (5.5 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 inISBN:

9781593977863

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Audiobooks

DDC classification:

CD FIC ROB

Production credits:

Read by Becket Royce.

Summary: This 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 family house is in the small Far West town of Fingerbone set on a glacial lake, 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." Ruth and Lucille's struggle toward adulthood beautifully illuminates the price of loss and survival, and the dangerous and deep undertow of transience.

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	CD FIC ROB (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Expurgado/No disponible		001396

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Read by Becket Royce.

This 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 family house is in the small Far West town of Fingerbone set on a glacial lake, 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." Ruth and Lucille's struggle toward adulthood beautifully illuminates the price of loss and survival, and the dangerous and deep undertow of transience.

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