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"So precise, so distilled, so beautiful that one doesn't want to miss any pleasure it might yield."
--Le Anne Schreiber, The New York Times Book Review
"Here's a first novel that sounds as if the author has been treasuring it up all her life . . . You can feel in the book a gathering voluptuous release of confidence, a delighted surprise at the unexpected capacities of language, a close, careful fondness for people that we thought only saints felt."
--Anatole Broyard, The New York Times
"I found myself reading slowly, than more slowly—this is not a novel to be hurried through, for every sentence is a delight."
--Doris Lessing
--Le Anne Schreiber, The New York Times Book Review
"Here's a first novel that sounds as if the author has been treasuring it up all her life . . . You can feel in the book a gathering voluptuous release of confidence, a delighted surprise at the unexpected capacities of language, a close, careful fondness for people that we thought only saints felt."
--Anatole Broyard, The New York Times
"I found myself reading slowly, than more slowly—this is not a novel to be hurried through, for every sentence is a delight."
--Doris Lessing
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A modern classic, Housekeeping 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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If you like fast-paced books heavy on plot, then Housekeeping is not for you. If you like "nice" stories with TV values, this book is not for you. But if you're looking for the secret heart of women who dare to go against the grain, and the way nature blows in and erases all evidence of a domestic life, then this is the book you've always wanted. The best tale of women's lives I have ever read. I only wish I had written it.
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Ms Robinson has created a world of human beings seeming to exist as memory and perception against a backdrop of overwhelming natural forces. Ruth, her sister and their guardian sit in a darkened house " The lake still thundered and groaned, the flood waters still brimmed and simmered. When we did not move or speak, there was no proof that we were there at all. The wind and the water brought sounds intact from any imaginable distance. Deprived of all perspective and horizon, I found myself reduced to an intuition, and my sister and my aunt to something less than that. I was afraid to put out my hand, for fear it would touch nothing, or to speak, for fear no one would answer. We all stood there silently for a long moment." Such writing might seem to come close, but never does get, precious. It is full of telling detail: the furtive closing of a door; the obsessive cleanliness of Sylvie who soaks tea towels in a solution of water and bleach over a period of weeks; the memorabilia a grandmother keeps in a bottom drawer; the old photos in the shoe box with patches of black felty paper on their backs; the sound of heels bumping with a soft, slow, rhythm against the legs of the chairs as children wait for their toast to be buttered. The themes concern desire and loss and our relationship with the natural world. It takes effort on the reader's part to enter Ms Robinson's world but what fine writing does not? Effective reading is a creative act too I understand. This particular journey is well worth the effort.
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Ruthie and her sister live by a frozen lake in Northern Idaho, a lake that swallowed her grandfather in a dramatically retold train wreck. Passed from mother to grandmother, from a pair of aunts to another aunt, these girls shakily inhabit a world of women. Their balance is further disrupted by the appearance of their aunt Sylvie, a woman who rides the rails to Idaho in order to care for them. Sylvie is a wild thing. She saves trash, refuses to wear socks, sleeps on benches. She seems unbalanced, but she is following a baffling internal logic that makes perfect sense to her. Ruthie hears the call of freedom as personified by her aunt Sylvie, while her sister simply wants to be normal.The sisters are in a sense two halves of a whole. The pain of each girl as they pull apart is considerable and unavoidable. The final actions of this novel, in which Sylvie leads Ruth through a series of tests to see if she can escape the gravity of housekeeping, are as crystalline pure as the air of the region in which this story takes place. The beauty of this book lies in more than the poetry of the prose. It lies in its elegaic treatment of vagrancy.
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Excellent story, but......
I really like the characters in this book (in particular Sylvie), and must admit I read the book only after having really loved the movie adaptation. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 27. Juli 2000 von "i_reilly"
One of my very favorite
It is hard to put in words how much this little book means to me. I have read the book three times and many times I have been compelled to stop and marvel at the beauty of... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 23. Juli 2000 von Germaine
Two years later, images and characterizations linger
I read the book after a creative writing teacher said it was the best novel ever written. Right, I said, as I lay on the bed, chin propped on my elbows, and turned to page 1. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 29. April 2000 von Rick Lytel
Wonderful Look At A Genuine Free-Spirit
This is a beautiful, almost poetic book about a misfit and free-spirit. The story line is not the most probable, I must admit, but the characters are very interesting and genuine... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 28. April 2000 von "gsibbery"
housekeeping
this book was beautiful, i just finished it today...it leaves me with an indescribable feeling.
Veröffentlicht am 19. März 2000 von Lindsey
one of the worst books ever
Although the language is admittedly beautiful, the story and characters are not worth your time. They are hard to believe and not sympathetic. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 17. Dezember 1999 veröffentlicht
this book is awesome
this is the most amazing novel ive ever read. if you can read it deeper than superficially, you will get a great deal of insigt out of it. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 4. November 1999 von lfwwfl@ix.netcom.com (lfwwfl@ix.netcom.com)
An incredibly haunting, addictive story.
If you are interested in a happy, upbeat, Ozzie and Harriet type of story, with a nice conventional plot, do not read this book. Do not pick this book up in the bookstore. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 12. Oktober 1999 von Eric Mulkey (ce8@ornl.gov)
a change of pace
well written, strange story line but interesting and original
Am 22. September 1999 veröffentlicht
One of the best of my college reading days...
I first read Housekeeping in college and it still remains on my Best of Those Years List. I still don't know how Robinson was able to hold me transfixed in nearly every sentence... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 6. Juli 1999 veröffentlicht
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