Housekeeping
Marilynne Robinson, Pulitzer Prize winning author of
Housekeeping, Gilead, and the new novel, Home, will appear at the
Victoria Hall Theater
on October 24th,
sponsored by UCSB Arts & Lectures and the
Santa Barbara Public Library System.
(free admission)
For more information call Central Reference at (805) 564-5604,
or your local branch
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Pick up a copy of this modern classic novel set in the imaginary town of Fingerbone, Idaho. It is the story of Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, who grow up haphazardly and struggle toward adulthood. Come to some of the following programs for this Fall’s Community Reading Program.
Program Events:
| October 12 – 2:00 PM |
Santa Barbara Central Library - panel discussion
Moderator Marcia Meier and a panel of college literature professors and writers will discuss the book and field questions. |
| October 14 -- 4:00 PM |
Solvang Library -- book discussion |
| October 14 -- 7:00 PM |
Carpinteria Library -- discussion at
Chamomile Café |
| October 15 -- 3:30 PM |
Montecito Library – book discussion
led by Jerry Pike |
| October 16 -- 6:30 PM |
Goleta Library -- book discussion |
| October 20 – 6:00 PM |
Central Library – screening of 1987 film adaptation |
| October 24 – 7:30 PM |
Marilynne Robinson at Victoria Hall Theater
free admission |
| October 26 – 2:00 PM |
Central Library – screening of 1987 film adaptation |
Housekeeping is the story of sisters Ruth and Lucille, who grow up first under the care of their competent grandmother, then of two comically bumbling great-aunts, and finally of Sylvie, their eccentric and remote aunt. The family house is in the small Far West town of Fingerbone set on a glacial lake, 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 transience.
Please contact Library Administration at (805) 564-5608 in advance if assistance is needed to participate in Library programs. Staff will make every attempt to provide appropriate accommodations.
