Keeping the house
Record details
- ISBN: 1433283964 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
- ISBN: 9781433283963 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
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Physical Description:
electronic
electronic resource
remote - Publisher: [Ashland, Or.] : Blackstone Audio, 2007.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Downloadable audio file. Title from: Title details screen. Unabridged. Duration: 16:16:43. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Christine Williams. |
System Details Note: | Requires OverDrive Media Console Requires OverDrive Media Console (file size: 233962 KB). Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Subject: | Marriage -- Fiction Wisconsin -- Fiction |
Genre: | DOWNLOADABLE AUDIOBOOK. Audiobooks. |
Electronic resources
Summary:
Set in the conformist 1950s and reaching back to span two world wars, Ellen Baker's superb novel is the story of a newlywed who falls in love with a grand abandoned house and begins to unravel dark secrets woven through the generations of a family. Like Whitney Otto's How to make an American quilt in its intimate portrayal of women's lives, and reminiscent of novels by Elizabeth Berg and Anne Tyler, Keeping the house is a rich tapestry of a novel that introduces a wonderful new fiction writer. When Dolly Magnuson moves to Pine Rapids, Wisconsin, in 1950, she discovers all too soon that making marriage work is harder than it looks in the pages of the Ladies' home journal. Dolly tries to adapt to her new life by keeping the house, supporting her husband's career, and fretting about dinner menus. She even gives up her dream of flying an airplane, trying instead to fit in at the stuffy Ladies Aid quilting circle. Soon, though, her loneliness and restless imagination are seized by the vacant house on the hill.