Elizabeth Strout Book order (chronological)

»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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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”.

"Olive Kitteridge has returned, as indomitable as ever, this time as a person getting older, navigating her next decade as she comes to terms with the changes--sometimes welcome, sometimes not--in her own life. Here is Olive, strangely content in her second marriage, still in an evolving relationship with her son and his family, encountering a cast of memorable characters in the seaside town of Crosby, Maine. Whether it's a young girl coming to terms with the loss of her father, a young woman about to give birth at a baby shower, or a nurse who confesses a secret high school crush, the irascible Olive improbably touches the lives of others."--Provided by publisher