{"id":4684,"date":"2009-04-11T05:18:05","date_gmt":"2009-04-11T12:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/?p=4684"},"modified":"2021-10-01T09:19:08","modified_gmt":"2021-10-01T16:19:08","slug":"featured-maryln-robinson-housekeeping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/archives\/featured-maryln-robinson-housekeeping\/","title":{"rendered":"FEATURED: MARILYNNE ROBINSON – HOUSEKEEPING"},"content":{"rendered":"

Marilynne Robinson’s 1980 novel<\/span> won a Hemingway Foundation\/PEN Award <\/em>for best first novel and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize<\/em> for Fiction. Housekeeping<\/em> is a coming-of-age tale set aganist the backdrop of a isloated Pacific Northwest town. Fingerbone, an all but forgotten place, is overshadowed by the new post war America. Its narrator, a teenage girl named Ruth, had likewise been exiled from conventional comforts. Her family story is an extended study in abandonment, madness and tragedy. The tale is a meditation on what is needed to sustain one’s self and household aganist the forces of nature by which it is constantly eroded. Walker Percy called Housekeeping<\/em> “a story told in a language as sharp and clear as light and air and water”.<\/p>\n

Description:<\/strong> True first printing, hard bound with price clipped dust jacket. Some minor wear to edges of dust jacket. Some fading to edges of boards, otherwise very good. Interior clean and binding tight. A Scarce copy of a classic modern first edition.<\/p>\n

Bookseller Inventory #<\/strong> 14079<\/p>\n

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Housekeeping<\/strong><\/em>
\nRobinson, Marilynne<\/span><\/p>\n

ISBN:<\/strong> 0374173133<\/span>
\nPublisher:<\/strong> Farrar Straus & Giroux, Gordonsville, Virginia, U.S.A.<\/span>
\nPublication Date:<\/strong> 1980<\/span>
\nBinding:<\/strong> Hard Cover<\/span>
\nBook Condition:<\/strong> Good<\/span>
\nDust Jacket Condition:<\/strong> Good<\/span>
\nEdition:<\/strong> First Edition<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Marilynne Robinson’s 1980 novel won a Hemingway Foundation\/PEN Award for best first novel and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Housekeeping is a coming-of-age tale set aganist the backdrop of a isloated Pacific Northwest town. Fingerbone, an all but forgotten place, is overshadowed by the new post war America. Its narrator, a teenage […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recently-sold"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4684"}],"version-history":[{"count":42,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15220,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4684\/revisions\/15220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}