Name: My Name is Lucy Barton
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Author: Strout, Elizabeth
ISBN: 9780812979527

Type

Physical Book

Author

Elizabeth Strout

Publisher

Random House Trade

Year

2016

Language

English

Pages

240

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

19.8x13x2.3 cm

Weight

0.20 kg.

ISBN13

9780812979527

Edition No.

Synopsis "My Name is Lucy Barton "

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A simple hospital visit becomes a portal to the tender relationship between mother and daughter in this extraordinary novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Olive Kitteridge and The Burgess Boys. Soon to be a Broadway play starring Laura Linney produced by Manhattan Theatre Club and London Theatre Company - LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE - NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post - The New York Times Book Review - NPR - BookPage - LibraryReads - Minneapolis Star Tribune - St. Louis Post-Dispatch Lucy Barton is recovering slowly from what should have been a simple operation. Her mother, to whom she hasn't spoken for many years, comes to see her. Gentle gossip about people from Lucy's childhood in Amgash, Illinois, seems to reconnect them, but just below the surface lie the tension and longing that have informed every aspect of Lucy's life: her escape from her troubled family, her desire to become a writer, her marriage, her love for her two daughters. Knitting this powerful narrative together is the brilliant storytelling voice of Lucy herself: keenly observant, deeply human, and truly unforgettable. Praise for My Name Is Lucy Barton "A quiet, sublimely merciful contemporary novel about love, yearning, and resilience in a family damaged beyond words."--The Boston Globe "It is Lucy's gentle honesty, complex relationship with her husband, and nuanced response to her mother's shortcomings that make this novel so subtly powerful."--San Francisco Chronicle "A short novel about love, particularly the complicated love between mothers and daughters, but also simpler, more sudden bonds . . . It evokes these connections in a style so spare, so pure and so profound the book almost seems to be a kind of scripture or sutra, if a very down-to-earth and unpretentious one."--Newsday "Spectacular . . . Smart and cagey in every way. It is both a book of withholdings and a book of great openness and wisdom. . . . [Strout] is in supreme and magnificent command of this novel at all times."--Lily King, The Washington Post "An aching, illuminating look at mother-daughter devotion."--People

Elizabeth Strout

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Elizabeth Strout (Portland, 1956) is an American novelist, author of Amy and Isabelle (1998, winner of the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize), Stay with Me and The Burgess Boys, as well as the successful series featuring Olive Kitteridge —Olive Kitteridge, winner of the Pulitzer, Llibreter, Bancarella, and Mondello awards and which became an acclaimed TV series, and February Light— and Lucy Barton —My Name is Lucy Barton, Anything is Possible, Oh William (considered one of the best books of the year by The Times and finalist for the Booker Prize, with which Alfaguara began in 2022 the publication of Strout's work), and, now, Lucy by the Sea—. Additionally, she has been a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize. She currently lives between New York and Portland.

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