Housekeeping

Housekeeping is a fantastic book, but "one of the ten best novels of the past century"?

Letters to the Editor 2005

Housekeeping is a fantastic book, but "one of the ten best novels of the past century"?

Letters to the Editor 2005

The religious elements in Housekeeping were somehow more ethereal for coming from a child's perspective.

The Minister's Tale 2004

The religious elements in Housekeeping were somehow more ethereal for coming from a child's perspective.

The Minister's Tale 2004

But in fact Housekeeping is a story of the end of housekeeping, in the most literal sense of that compound word.

The Minister's Tale 2004

Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping is one of the ten best novels of the past century.

The Minister's Tale 2004

Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping is one of the ten best novels of the past century.

The Minister's Tale 2004

Housekeeping is less overtly religious than Gilead, but the story has a lot to do with a poem by Emily Dickinson — the transient aunt and her unkempt house become a living embodiment of those words, "I dwell in possibility/A fairer house than prose."

Gilead's Balm 2004

But in fact Housekeeping is a story of the end of housekeeping, in the most literal sense of that compound word.

The Minister's Tale 2004

But in fact Housekeeping is a story of the end of housekeeping, in the most literal sense of that compound word.

The Minister's Tale 2004