Housekeeping
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3 journalers for this copy...
From 500 Great Books by Women; review by Jesse Larsen
Housekeeping begins "My name is Ruth." It ends with Ruth remarking that she had "never distinguished readily between thinking and dreaming" and realizing that her "life would be much different if I could ever say, This I have learned from my senses, while that I have merely imagined." Although Ruth and her sister Lucille spend most of their childhood in one house near a lake in Idaho - terrain described at length through poignant and radiant prose - Ruth never loses the feeling of being a homeless woman, a person who, with her sister, "had spent our lives watching and listening with the constant sharp attention of children lost in the dark. It seemed that we were bewilderingly lost in a landscape that, with any light at all, would be wholly unfamiliar." In Housekeeping, lives change drastically just when nothing seems to be happening. Marilynne Robinson's vibrant and visual language floats and flows out of Ruth's most secret self, only to remind us how impossible it is to ever really get under another person's skin.
Housekeeping begins "My name is Ruth." It ends with Ruth remarking that she had "never distinguished readily between thinking and dreaming" and realizing that her "life would be much different if I could ever say, This I have learned from my senses, while that I have merely imagined." Although Ruth and her sister Lucille spend most of their childhood in one house near a lake in Idaho - terrain described at length through poignant and radiant prose - Ruth never loses the feeling of being a homeless woman, a person who, with her sister, "had spent our lives watching and listening with the constant sharp attention of children lost in the dark. It seemed that we were bewilderingly lost in a landscape that, with any light at all, would be wholly unfamiliar." In Housekeeping, lives change drastically just when nothing seems to be happening. Marilynne Robinson's vibrant and visual language floats and flows out of Ruth's most secret self, only to remind us how impossible it is to ever really get under another person's skin.
the book is part of a trade and travelling to GeeMont. Enjoy!
Received in the mail.
My wife and I read this novel for a book group. It is quite well written, almost poetic, but peculiar too.
Mailed to bakerwhencan.
Thank you GeeMont! Arrived today. Will probably bring this on an upcoming trip with me to the Philippines.
The writing is beautiful. My experience with this book was unusual for me - I read all the way up to about 30 pages left and I just couldn't pick it up again. Something about the family is so sad and the climate it creates with the water, river, bridge. It's been over a year now that I haven't read the last 30 pages and I'm making this available.
Thank you for sharing this with me GeeMont!!
Thank you for sharing this with me GeeMont!!
Journal Entry 8 by bakerwhencan at UCSF Medical Center in San Francisco, California USA on Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Released 15 yrs ago (11/26/2008 UTC) at UCSF Medical Center in San Francisco, California USA
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