- American fiction, Aunts, Death, Eccentrics and eccentricities
Marilynne Robinson's first novel.
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Earnest, contemplative, grave and prestige.
- earnestironic
- contemplativerelentless
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Marilynne Robinson
- First published
- 1980
- Pages
- 224
- Publisher
- Picador, Audio Renaissance, Albin Michel
- Editions
- 33
- Language
- French, Chinese, English
- ISBN
- 9780553262384
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First sentence
“My name is Ruth.”
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