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Released from Countdowns Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping is the best American debut novel of the past fifty years, maybe the best American novel of the past fifty years, period. It’s a bold move, then, for Harriet Clark to put her own debut, The Hill (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $28, 273 pp.), in such explicit conversation with Robinson’s masterpiece. Clark borrows character names, Helen and Sylvie, from Housekeeping, and she channels the cadences of Robinson’s prose: “Say that this resurrec...
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Commonweal (United States) | Aug 04, 2026
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