Housekeeping (Easton Press Signed Collector's Edition)
ROBINSON, Marilynne. Housekeeping. Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2013.
Octavo. Full deep brown leather. Spine with raised bands, 22-carat gilt accents. Elaborate gilt design to covers. All edges gilt. Salmon moiré silk endpapers. Satin ribbon page marker. 220 pp. Signed Collector's Edition. Signed by the author on the special signature page. Includes signed Certificate of Authenticity (dated July 23, 2013) and edition card. Originally published New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1981. No bookplate with this copy.
Marilynne Robinson (b. 1943) grew up in Sandpoint, Idaho, attended Brown University, and completed her doctorate at the University of Washington. She subsequently directed the Iowa Writers' Workshop for many years and has been cited by President Obama as his favourite living writer. She has published four novels — Housekeeping, Gilead (2004, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction), Home (2008, Orange Prize shortlist), and Lila (2014) — and several volumes of essays that together constitute one of the most sustained and serious bodies of literary and theological reflection in contemporary American letters.
Housekeeping was her first novel and is the work by which she remains most widely known. John Hawkes, reviewing it on publication, wrote: "I think that there are very few first novels published since the mid-20th century to compare with Housekeeping for sheer perfection of language and for conveying what it means to be human. A work of pure grace." The Guardian named it one of its hundred greatest novels of all time. It was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and won the PEN/Hemingway Award for Best First Novel.
The novel is set in the fictional town of Fingerbone on a glacial lake in Idaho — a landscape of extreme weather, silence, and water that becomes the governing metaphor for everything the novel investigates. Ruth and her younger sister Lucille grow up in the family house beside the lake after their mother drives her car off a cliff into it and drowns — following their grandfather, who died in a spectacular train wreck on the same lake years before. They are raised first by their grandmother, then by two elderly great-aunts, and finally by Sylvie, their mother's mysterious and transient sister, who arrives from nowhere and whose relationship to domesticity, to permanence, and to the distinction between inside and outside gradually reveals itself to be the novel's true subject.
Housekeeping is a novel about transience — about the impossibility of keeping anything, about the way the dead remain among the living, about the pull between rootedness and drifting that Robinson renders in prose of an almost unbearable precision. It is also, beneath its metaphysical freight, a novel of great sadness and great beauty, set in a landscape that feels like the only landscape it could inhabit.
The Easton Press Signed Collector's Edition was published in a limited print run with no ISBN and sold out upon publication. It is among the scarcer titles in the Easton Press signed series.
Near fine. Some markings along edge gilt; otherwise fine throughout.
This book is currently not on display in store. If you would like more information or to arrange a viewing, please contact: [email protected]
Catalogue Number: HH000531
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ROBINSON, Marilynne. Housekeeping. Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2013.
Octavo. Full deep brown leather. Spine with raised bands, 22-carat gilt accents. Elaborate gilt design to covers. All edges gilt. Salmon moiré silk endpapers. Satin ribbon page marker. 220 pp. Signed Collector's Edition. Signed by the author on the special signature page. Includes signed Certificate of Authenticity (dated July 23, 2013) and edition card. Originally published New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1981. No bookplate with this copy.
Marilynne Robinson (b. 1943) grew up in Sandpoint, Idaho, attended Brown University, and completed her doctorate at the University of Washington. She subsequently directed the Iowa Writers' Workshop for many years and has been cited by President Obama as his favourite living writer. She has published four novels — Housekeeping, Gilead (2004, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction), Home (2008, Orange Prize shortlist), and Lila (2014) — and several volumes of essays that together constitute one of the most sustained and serious bodies of literary and theological reflection in contemporary American letters.
Housekeeping was her first novel and is the work by which she remains most widely known. John Hawkes, reviewing it on publication, wrote: "I think that there are very few first novels published since the mid-20th century to compare with Housekeeping for sheer perfection of language and for conveying what it means to be human. A work of pure grace." The Guardian named it one of its hundred greatest novels of all time. It was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and won the PEN/Hemingway Award for Best First Novel.
The novel is set in the fictional town of Fingerbone on a glacial lake in Idaho — a landscape of extreme weather, silence, and water that becomes the governing metaphor for everything the novel investigates. Ruth and her younger sister Lucille grow up in the family house beside the lake after their mother drives her car off a cliff into it and drowns — following their grandfather, who died in a spectacular train wreck on the same lake years before. They are raised first by their grandmother, then by two elderly great-aunts, and finally by Sylvie, their mother's mysterious and transient sister, who arrives from nowhere and whose relationship to domesticity, to permanence, and to the distinction between inside and outside gradually reveals itself to be the novel's true subject.
Housekeeping is a novel about transience — about the impossibility of keeping anything, about the way the dead remain among the living, about the pull between rootedness and drifting that Robinson renders in prose of an almost unbearable precision. It is also, beneath its metaphysical freight, a novel of great sadness and great beauty, set in a landscape that feels like the only landscape it could inhabit.
The Easton Press Signed Collector's Edition was published in a limited print run with no ISBN and sold out upon publication. It is among the scarcer titles in the Easton Press signed series.
Near fine. Some markings along edge gilt; otherwise fine throughout.
This book is currently not on display in store. If you would like more information or to arrange a viewing, please contact: [email protected]
Catalogue Number: HH000531
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ROBINSON, Marilynne. Housekeeping. Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2013.
Octavo. Full deep brown leather. Spine with raised bands, 22-carat gilt accents. Elaborate gilt design to covers. All edges gilt. Salmon moiré silk endpapers. Satin ribbon page marker. 220 pp. Signed Collector's Edition. Signed by the author on the special signature page. Includes signed Certificate of Authenticity (dated July 23, 2013) and edition card. Originally published New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1981. No bookplate with this copy.
Marilynne Robinson (b. 1943) grew up in Sandpoint, Idaho, attended Brown University, and completed her doctorate at the University of Washington. She subsequently directed the Iowa Writers' Workshop for many years and has been cited by President Obama as his favourite living writer. She has published four novels — Housekeeping, Gilead (2004, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction), Home (2008, Orange Prize shortlist), and Lila (2014) — and several volumes of essays that together constitute one of the most sustained and serious bodies of literary and theological reflection in contemporary American letters.
Housekeeping was her first novel and is the work by which she remains most widely known. John Hawkes, reviewing it on publication, wrote: "I think that there are very few first novels published since the mid-20th century to compare with Housekeeping for sheer perfection of language and for conveying what it means to be human. A work of pure grace." The Guardian named it one of its hundred greatest novels of all time. It was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and won the PEN/Hemingway Award for Best First Novel.
The novel is set in the fictional town of Fingerbone on a glacial lake in Idaho — a landscape of extreme weather, silence, and water that becomes the governing metaphor for everything the novel investigates. Ruth and her younger sister Lucille grow up in the family house beside the lake after their mother drives her car off a cliff into it and drowns — following their grandfather, who died in a spectacular train wreck on the same lake years before. They are raised first by their grandmother, then by two elderly great-aunts, and finally by Sylvie, their mother's mysterious and transient sister, who arrives from nowhere and whose relationship to domesticity, to permanence, and to the distinction between inside and outside gradually reveals itself to be the novel's true subject.
Housekeeping is a novel about transience — about the impossibility of keeping anything, about the way the dead remain among the living, about the pull between rootedness and drifting that Robinson renders in prose of an almost unbearable precision. It is also, beneath its metaphysical freight, a novel of great sadness and great beauty, set in a landscape that feels like the only landscape it could inhabit.
The Easton Press Signed Collector's Edition was published in a limited print run with no ISBN and sold out upon publication. It is among the scarcer titles in the Easton Press signed series.
Near fine. Some markings along edge gilt; otherwise fine throughout.
This book is currently not on display in store. If you would like more information or to arrange a viewing, please contact: [email protected]
Catalogue Number: HH000531
