Elizabeth Strout crafts novels that delve into the complexities of human experience with profound empathy and sharp insight. Her work is celebrated for its intimate portrayals of ordinary lives, exploring the subtle nuances of memory, identity, and the search for meaning. Strout's distinctive narrative voice and psychological depth resonate deeply, offering readers a powerful exploration of the human condition.
As a panicked world goes into lockdown in March 2020, Lucy Barton is uprooted from her life in Manhattan and bundled away to a small town in Maine by her ex-husband and on-again, off-again friend, William. She expected to be back in a week or two. Weeks turn into moths, and it's just Lucy, William, and their complex past together in a little house nestled against the moody, swirling sea
Set against the backdrop of autumn in Maine, a town lawyer finds himself intertwined in a murder case while forging a deep friendship with acclaimed writer Lucy Barton. As they share walks and discuss their fears and regrets, Lucy connects with the iconic Olive Kitteridge, now in a retirement community. Their afternoons together are filled with storytelling, exploring the lives of those around them, which Olive refers to as "unrecorded lives," ultimately giving new meaning to their experiences and relationships.
An extraordinary new novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Number One New York Times bestselling author of Olive Kitteridge and My Name is Lucy Barton 'A superbly gifted storyteller and a craftswoman in a league of her own' Hilary Mantel Olive, Again follows the blunt, contradictory yet deeply loveable Olive Kitteridge as she grows older, navigating the second half of her life as she comes to terms with the changes - sometimes welcome, sometimes not - in her own existence and in those around her. Olive adjusts to her new life with her second husband, challenges her estranged son and his family to accept him, experiences loss and loneliness, witnesses the triumphs and heartbreaks of her friends and neighbours in the small coastal town of Crosby, Maine - and, finally, opens herself to new lessons about life. 'A powerful storyteller immersed in the nuances of human relationships' Observer 'She gets better with each book' Maggie O'Farrell 'One of America's finest writers' Sunday Times
Exuberant and affirming, it's funny and immensely clever, emotionally rare and strong. I feel bereft now I've finished' Tessa Hadley Casey has ended up back in Massachusetts after a devastating love affair. Her mother has just died and she is knocked sideways by grief and loneliness, moving between the restaurant where she waitresses for the Harvard elite and the rented shed she calls home. Her one constant is the novel she has been writing for six years, but at thirty-one she is in debt and directionless, and feels too old to be that way - it's strange, not be the youngest kind of adult anymore. And then, one evening, she meets Silas. He is kind, handsome, interested. But only a few weeks later, Oscar walks into her restaurant, his two boys in tow. He is older, grieving the loss of his wife, and wrapped up in his own creativity. Suddenly Casey finds herself at the point of a love triangle, stuck between two very different relationships that promise two very different futures. Lily King's Writers & Lovers follows Casey in the last days of a long youth, a time when everything - her family, her work, her relationships - comes to a crisis. Hugely moving and impossibly funny, it is a transfixing novel that explores the terrifying and exhilarating leap between the end of one phase of life and the beginning of another. It is a novel about love and creativity, and ultimately it captures the moment when a woman becomes an artist.
From the author of Tell Me Everything, My Name is Lucy Barton and Olive Kitteridge: Elizabeth Strout's celebrated fourth novel The Burgess Boys Haunted by the freak accident that killed their father when they were children, Jim and Bob Burgess escaped from their Maine hometown for New York as soon as they could. Jim, a successful corporate lawyer, has belittled his bighearted brother their whole lives, something that Bob, a legal aid attorney who idolises Jim, has always taken in his stride. But when their sister desperately calls them back home to Shirley Falls to help her teenage son out of trouble, long-buried tensions begin to surface in unexpected ways that will change them forever. A stunning story about the tragedies and triumphs of two brothers, from the bestselling author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Olive Kitteridge. Exploring the ties that bind us to family and home, this novel will resonate with readers long after they turn the final page. Praise for Elizabeth Strout ‘Astonishingly good’ Evening Standard 'So good it gave me goosebumps’ Sunday Times ‘Strout animates the ordinary with astonishing force’ The New Yorker 'A superbly gifted storyteller and a craftswoman in a league of her own' Hilary Mantel
Presents twenty of the best works of short fiction of the past year from a variety of acclaimed sources.
After the tragic death of his young wife, Reverend Tyler Caskey, a New England minister, struggles to hold together his own life, his family, and his town, while dealing with his personal anger, grief, and loss of faith.
Lucy Barton is a writer, but her ex-husband, William, remains a hard man to read. So Lucy is both surprised and not surprised when William asks her to join him on a trip to investigate a recently uncovered family secret
From the Man Booker Prize longlisted author of My Name is Lucy Barton Isabelle Goodrow has been living in self-imposed exile with her daughter Amy for 15 years. Shamed by her past and her affair with Amy's father she has submerged herself in the routine of her dead-end job and her unrequited love for her boss. But when Amy, frustrated by her quiet and unemotional mother, embarks on an illicit affair with her maths teacher, the disgrace intensifies the shame Isabelle feels about her own past. Throughout one long, sweltering summer as the events of the small town ebb and flow around them Amy and Isabelle exist in silent conflict until a final act leads ultimately to the understanding they both crave.
"Olive Kitteridge" offers profound insights into the human condition--its conflicts, tragedies, and joys. Strout constructs her stories with rich irony and moments of genuine surprise and intense emotion" ("USA Today").
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE • A simple hospital visit becomes a portal to the tender relationship between mother and daughter in this “spectacular” (The Washington Post) novel by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Olive Kitteridge and The Burgess Boys. “An aching, illuminating look at mother-daughter devotion.”—People A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Time, The Washington Post, The New York Times Book Review, NPR, San Francisco Chronicle, Minneapolis Star Tribune, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Miami Herald, The Guardian Slate, BookPage, LibraryReads, Kirkus Reviews 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.
Anything Is Possible explores the whole range of human emotion through the intimate dramas of people struggling to understand themselves and others. Here are two sisters: one trades self-respect for a wealthy husband while the other finds in the pages of a book a kindred spirit who changes her life. The janitor at the local school has his faith tested in an encounter with an isolated man he has come to help; a grown daughter longs for mother love even as she comes to accept her mother's happiness in a foreign country, and the adult Lucy Barton (the heroine of My Name Is Lucy Barton) returns to visit her siblings after seventeen years of absence.
»Wer Elizabeth Strout einmal gelesen hat, will weiterlesen.« FAZ Der SPIEGEL-Bestseller der Pulitzer-Preisträgerin - erstmals im Taschenbuch. »Welch eine Gnade, dass wir nicht wissen, was uns im Leben erwartet.« Elizabeth Strout schreibt die Geschichte von Lucy Barton weiter, ihrer feinsinnigen, von den Härten des Lebens nicht immer verschonten Heldin. Mit ihrem Ex-Mann William sucht sie während des Lockdowns Zuflucht in Maine, in einem alten Haus am Meer. Eine unvergessliche Geschichte über Familie und Freundschaft, die Zerbrechlichkeit unserer Existenz und die Hoffnung, die uns am Leben erhält, selbst wenn die Welt aus den Fugen gerät. Sie hatte es so wenig kommen sehen wie die meisten. Lucy Barton, erfolgreiche Schriftstellerin und Mutter zweier erwachsener Töchter, erhält im März 2020 einen Anruf von ihrem Ex-Mann - und immer noch besten Freund - William. Er bittet sie, ihren Koffer zu packen und mit ihm New York zu verlassen. In Maine hat er für sie beide ein Küstenhaus gemietet, auf einer abgelegenen Landzunge, weit weg von allem. Nur für ein paar Wochen wollen sie anfangs dort sein. Doch aus Wochen werden Monate, in denen Lucy und William und ihre komplizierte Vergangenheit zusammen sind in dem einsamen Haus am Meer.
Olivija Kitteridzh - odna iz samykh izvestnykh knig Elizabet Straut. Imenno za etu knigu ona byla udostoena Pulittserovskoj premii, a krome togo, ispanskoj premii Libreter i italjanskoj Bancarella. Straut sozdala unikalnoe romannoe prostranstvo i naselila ego koloritnymi gerojami, glavnaja iz kotorykh, Olivija Kitteridzh, zhenschina s silnym, protivorechivym kharakterom, obladaet udivitelnym magnetizmom. Kazhdaja iz trinadtsati novell, sostavljajuschikh knigu, soderzhit uvlekatelnejshuju istoriju, kotoraja zakhvatyvaet i darit ni s chem ne sravnimoe chitatelskoe udovolstvie.
Una straordinaria antologia con le migliori storie della narrativa americana gialla di oggi
Il giallo è una vera e propria sfumatura dell'animo umano, un imprevisto dietro l'angolo che in un istante ci catapulta in una dimensione inattesa. E in questa raccolta, a indagare sulle ombre della realtà quotidiana sono le migliori firme della letteratura americana contemporanea: da Michael Connelly, che ci racconta cosa si nasconde dietro l'ennesimo incidente successo nel buio di Mulholland Drive, a Alice Munro, che disvela l'indicibile e crudele segreto risalente all'infanzia di due donne ormai adulte; da James Lee Burke, che ci proietta nei bassifondi della provincia intorno a una New Orleans distrutta dall'uragano Katrina, a Joyce Carol Oates, che illumina la tensione che cova in una casa in una piccola cittadina dello Stato di New York tra un padre cieco e due figlie separate dagli eventi della vita, fino poi a Elizabeth Strout, Holly Goddard Jones e molti altri. Venti storie diverse unite da una grande scrittura e da una capacità magnetica di sorprendere il lettore.
Przystojny, inteligentny, dowcipny i... bezdomny. Nagle niewidzialny dla świata. Jak to się mogło stać…? Łatwiej niż ci się wydaje! „Człowiek, a nie człowiek” to powieść o dramacie jednostki, olbrzymiej roli przypadku w życiu, a także o współczesnym świecie, w którym „wszystko jest znane, lecz nic nie jest rozumiane”, jak w książce pt. „Miłość” pisała Toni Morrison. Markijan Sowa, pół Polak, pół Ukrainiec, zbiegiem kilku nieprzychylnych okoliczności zostaje bezdomnym i zamieszkuje na dworcu kolejowym w Gliwicach. Otacza go wielu, lecz nikt nie jest w stanie – lub nie chce – mu pomóc. Świat biegnie swoim torem, wkraczając w ogromne procesy, które znamy już z historii, media plują papką, ludzie pędzą przed siebie na oślep, a Markijan Sowa dryfując ku zagładzie, tęskni do, najmniejszego choćby, „cienia nadziei”.
The collected stories of a critically acclaimed, award-winning author, ripe for rediscovery and featuring a foreword by Elizabeth Strout, showcase the remarkable talent of Hilma Wolitzer, who, at 90, remains at the top of her game. Known for elevating ordinary people and everyday occurrences, Wolitzer's short stories, many published in magazines like Esquire and The Saturday Evening Post during the 1960s and 1970s, resonate deeply today. The title story depicts a bystander attempting to comfort a woman overwhelmed by motherhood, while several linked tales explore the evolving relationship between the narrator and her husband through humorous vignettes. Wolitzer's work captures the domestic sphere and ordinary life with wit, candor, and grace. Her stories brilliantly reveal the tensions and contradictions of daily existence, offering insights into a world that was often overlooked at the time and remains relevant now. This collection invites a new generation of readers to embrace a beloved writer, providing a lens into the complexities of life that continues to resonate.
