The housekeeper
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Subject |
Runaway children > Fiction. Housekeepers > Fiction. |
Genre |
Psychological fiction. Fiction. |
- ISBN: 0385664117
- ISBN: 9780385664110
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Physical Description
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290 pages - Publisher [Toronto] : Anchor Canada, 2007.
- Copyright ©2006
Content descriptions
General Note: | Originally published: San Francisco : MacAdam/Cage, 2006. |
Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | LSC 19.95 |
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The Housekeeper
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Summary
The Housekeeper
A chilling literary novel about a nomadic young woman who becomes tangled in the stories of her past and the search for a wild boy. Teenage runaway Jamie Hall - entangled by circumstance and poverty - seems incapable of escaping the mountain-and-valley watershed that was the birthplace of her maternal grandparents. Working as a housekeeper for Margaret, a retired photographer who leaves behind a pictorial chronicle of the valley's history, Jamie finds herself trapped in a town-and amongst a group of locals-unable to shake the relentless grip of the past. With an unforgettable cast of characters and gorgeous, piercing prose, The Housekeeper is at once a poetic meditation on landscape and a page-turning thriller.