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A carregar... Housekeeping: A Novel (Picador Modern Classics) (original 1980; edição 2004)por Marilynne Robinson (Autor)
Pormenores da obraHousekeeping por Marilynne Robinson (1980)
  
» 41 mais Top Five Books of 2020 (123) Five star books (111) Books Read in 2020 (281) Top Five Books of 2018 (255) Female Author (423) 20th Century Literature (592) rest, peace, fiction (10) First Novels (133) Unmarried women (5) Protagonists - Women (24) Women Writers (12) Books About Girls (81) Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro.  bookworm12 | Feb 18, 2021 |  Okay, everyone loves this book--and I thought much of the writing was really beautiful. But for me it was just too writerly. The writing seemed to me to be as present as character or sense of place, and I found it distracting. (  ) giovannaz63 | Jan 18, 2021 | A friend suggested this one, and I did like it. She said that every sentence does something, which is surely true, but to me, it was almost too much. I don't want to advocate for throwaway sentences, but when every sentence is so very vigorous in rhythm, vocabulary, metaphor, and so on, it becomes almost overstimulating. The book didn't connect a lot for me emotionally (though I suppose it did more as it drew nearer the end), and I wonder if that's partially because I'm a man -- if a book in which men are absent, ghost, or parody and women are grappling with alienation and with their traditional roles as mothers, grandmothers, and housekeepers is one that I'm very well equipped to form a strong connection with in the first place. ( ) dllh | Jan 6, 2021 | I loved "Gilead," and so my natural inclination after finishing it was to find other books by the same author. Unfortunately, this novel just didn't appeal to me, though I can see how others would enjoy it. I'm glad to have finished it, but won't be rereading it anytime soon. (  ) resoundingjoy | Jan 1, 2021 | I don't read a lot of fiction. So I have a hard time rating Housekeeping. Was it moving? Somewhat. Did the story feel cold, like in temperature? Yes, it feels like a dark icy place. Was the story-line compelling? Mostly Yes. Were the characters mysterious and oddly magnetic? Definitely. Was it thought-provoking? Yes. Was it fun and entertaining? Not really. Was her writing poetic? Without a doubt. Were there layers of meaning that I'm sure I missed? For sure. Will I read it again? Maybe. Is it worth reading again? Yes. Will I read other books of hers? I hope to. Is it a book I wish I could read with others who actually know anything about literature? 100% nrt43 | Dec 29, 2020 | sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
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An unabridged audio edition of this classic work on the 25th anniversary of its first publicationA 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. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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