Customer Reviews: Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 A beautiful, haunting book:
profundity at your fingertips: Housekeeping is one of the most absorbing novels I've ever read, and for me stands alongside "The Apple in the Dark" by Clarice Lispector and "Owls Do Cry" by Janet Frame, which were written about twenty years earlier. Robinson writes of loss, of family love, of people and the ways we want and want not to fit in, as seen through the eyes of two high school age sisters who know great loss themselves, unfolding in a small Idaho town around the time of WWII. Gorgeously poetic, her prose is ripe with imagistic... A long and boring waste: I can't believe people liked this writing. I need a period now and then. Long, rambling piles of meaningless words that lent nothing to the story. I wish it had been a library book instead of a waste of my Kindle selections. Worthy of a cursory examination like a fossil: I just read a compelling short story by the new nobel in literature, J.M.G. Le Clezio, "The Boy Who Had Never Seen the Sea" that compares with the style of "Housekeeping" in its lyrical beauty and description but far surpasses Robinson's novel. I couldn't stop reading the short story and I can't keep reading "Housekeeping." Both authors are immensely gifted, and I haven't read anything else by Le Clezio although I will but I doubt I'll give Robinson another try. I wasn't thrilled by "Gilead" either and I...
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