Marilynne Robinson is an anomaly in modern American fiction. While its leading practitioners have, for decades, produced novels flavoured with brash sexuality and dark humour, and produced them with tireless, macho verve (Roth and Updike account for around 70 books between them), Robinson has gained a vast reputation thanks solely to Housekeeping, a slim, unfashionable novel published nearly 25 years ago.

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