Housekeeping [sound recording] / Marilynne Robinson.
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.
Record details
- ISBN: 1593977867
- ISBN: 9781593977863
- Physical Description: 5 sound discs (5 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
- Publisher: New York : Audio Renaissance, [2005]
- Copyright: ℗2005
Content descriptions
- General Note:
- Compact discs.Unabridged.
- Participant or Performer Note:
- Read by Becket Royce.
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- Subject:
- Eccentrics and eccentricities > Fiction.
Mothers > Death > Fiction.
Girls > Fiction.
Aunts > Fiction. - Genre:
- Domestic fiction.
Audiobooks.
Available copies
- 5 of 5 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Madison County Public Library.
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- 0 current holds with 5 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Madison Main Library | AUDB 5-CD ROB (Text) | 30229100981157 | Adult Audiobook | Available | - |
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Summary:
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.
