Housekeeping (novel)
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.
First edition cover | |
| Author | Marilynne Robinson |
|---|---|
| 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 |
In 2003, Guardian Unlimited named Housekeeping one of the 100 greatest novels of all time, 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.
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