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{{short description|1994 novel by Kristina McGrath}}
{{Infobox book | <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Novels or Wikipedia:WikiProject_Books -->
| name         = House Work
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| image        = House Work (novel).jpg
| caption = First edition
| author       = [[Kristina McGrath]]
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| country      = United States
| language     = English
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| genre        = Novel, [[Proletarian literature]]
| publisher    = [[Bridge Works Publishing Company]]
| release_date = 1994
| media_type   = Print (hardback)
| pages        = 198 pp
| isbn         = 1-882593-07-3
| dewey= 813/.54 20
| congress= PS3563.C3659 H68 1994
| oclc          = 30075637
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'''''House Work''''' is a novel by the American writer [[Kristina McGrath]] set in 1950s [[Pittsburgh]], [[Pennsylvania]].<ref>{{cite journal
| title = ''Kristina McGrath'', '''Contemporary Authors Online''', Detroit: Thomson Gale, 2008}}</ref>
It tells the story of a working-class family of five through shifting points of view. The novel's focus is on a mother's heroism in raising her three children alone after the disintegration of her marriage. Defying the advice of her parish priest, Anna Hallissey leaves her alcoholic husband and re-establishes a home for her children by cleaning other people's houses.<ref>{{cite journal
| title = ''House Work'' (1994), '''Publishers Weekly''', 1994}}</ref>
The novel was chosen by ''[[The New York Times Book Review]]'' as a notable book of the year in 1994.<ref>{{cite journal
| title = ''House Work'' (1994), '''New York Times Book Review''', 1994}}</ref>
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[[Category:1994 American novels]]
[[Category:Novels set in Pittsburgh]]
[[Category:Fiction set in the 1950s]]
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