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Housekeeping

A Novel

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Housekeeping

Von: Marilynne Robinson
Gesprochen von: Becket Royce
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An unabridged audio edition of Marilynne Robinson's classic work Housekeeping, on the 25th anniversary of its first publication.

Winner of the Pen/Hemingway Award

A modern classic, Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping is 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, the eccentric and remote sister of their dead mother.

The family house is in the small town of Fingerbone on a glacial lake in the Far West, 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 transcience.

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Kritikerstimmen

“So precise, so distilled, so beautiful that one doesn't want to miss any pleasure it might yield.” —Le Anne Schreiber, The New York Times Book Review

“Here's a first novel that sounds as if the author has been treasuring it up all her life...You can feel in the book a gathering voluptuous release of confidence, a delighted surprise at the unexpected capacities of language, a close, careful fondness for people that we thought only saints felt.” —Anatole Broyard, The New York Times

“I found myself reading slowly, than more slowly—this is not a novel to be hurried through, for every sentence is a delight.” —Doris Lessing
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You probably don't need me to tell you that Marilynne Robinson is a brilliant writer. She writes haunting, sophisticated, thoughtful prose. Unfortunately, nobody told Becket Royce that. This reader (whose other work apparently includes Christmas stories and genre fiction) is totally unsuited to Marilynne Robinson's work. She reads with all the expressiveness of the GPS directions on my phone, or a flight attendant going through emergency procedures. Her tone is almost robotic, as if she had no idea what the sentences she's reading actually mean, and each sentence seems entirely detached from the sentences before and after. She reads the most powerful passages in the story with the indifference of a waitress telling you what salad dressings are available. I forced myself to finish the book because I was on a trip with no other options, but I would not recommend this reader to anyone.

Beautiful writing, terrible reading

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