MARILYNNE ROBINSON introduction Housekeeping CD Big Read literary criticism 2008 This is "AN INTRODUCTION TO HOUSEKEEPING BY MARILYNNE ROBINSON,” created by THE BIG READ, a CD in its original, unopened shrink-wrapped packaging (and unavailable to the general public in retail stores). This Audio Guide was issued by the National Endowment for the Arts in 2008. Even avid readers will be hard pressed to find another novel quite like Marilynne Robinson's luminous “Housekeeping” -- et in the remote town of Fingerbone, Idaho, presents the eccentric lives of three generations of Foster family women. It celebrates life while chronicling the deaths, abandonments, and insecurities that beset the Fosters. Created by the National Endowment for the Arts, “The Big Read” is a program designed to revitalize the role of literary reading in American popular culture. The initiative brings communities together to read, discuss, and celebrate books and writers from American and world literature.