{"product_id":"book-dnv4","title":"Housekeeping (Fortieth Anniversary Edition)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"[Narrator Therese] Plummer's talented performance is both illuminating and poignant.\" -- \u003ci\u003eAudioFile Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the Pen\/Hemingway Award\u003cbr\u003eFortieth Anniversary Edition\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis program includes a bonus conversation with the author. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA modern classic, Marilynne Robinson's \u003ci\u003eHousekeeping\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRuth and Lucille's struggle toward adulthood beautifully illuminates the price of loss and survival, and the dangerous and deep undertow of transience.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Macmillan Audio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49369941213488,"sku":"BDdnv4","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD [40]","offer_id":49369941246256,"sku":"40dnv4","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/207914-dnv4-Square.jpg?v=1734639500","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-dnv4","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}