A new book by Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout is cause for celebration. Her bestselling novels, including Olive Kitteridge and The Burgess Boys, have illuminated our most tender relationships. Now, in My Name Is Lucy Barton, this extraordinary writer shows how a simple hospital visit becomes a portal to the most tender relationship of all—the one between mother and daughter.
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.
ELIZABETH STROUT is the author of several novels, including: Abide with Me, a national bestseller and BookSense pick, and Amy and Isabelle, which won the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize, and was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize in England. In 2009 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her book Olive Kitteridge. Her short stories have been published in a number of magazines, including The New Yorker. She teaches at the Master of Fine Arts program at Queens University of Charlotte.
A really quiet book. And yet, a wealth of palpable emotions, and with power. Last time I read something so deceitfully peaceful was "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro (And then he won the Nobel Prize). And Strout is a Pulitzer winner herself. The la...
评分A really quiet book. And yet, a wealth of palpable emotions, and with power. Last time I read something so deceitfully peaceful was "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro (And then he won the Nobel Prize). And Strout is a Pulitzer winner herself. The la...
评分A really quiet book. And yet, a wealth of palpable emotions, and with power. Last time I read something so deceitfully peaceful was "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro (And then he won the Nobel Prize). And Strout is a Pulitzer winner herself. The la...
评分A really quiet book. And yet, a wealth of palpable emotions, and with power. Last time I read something so deceitfully peaceful was "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro (And then he won the Nobel Prize). And Strout is a Pulitzer winner herself. The la...
评分A really quiet book. And yet, a wealth of palpable emotions, and with power. Last time I read something so deceitfully peaceful was "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro (And then he won the Nobel Prize). And Strout is a Pulitzer winner herself. The la...
读的时候总会联想到Educated 贫穷起点与通过书本拓宽的视野是共同之处 温吞水文风 尽管母女之间的动态和主人公的背景都有弦外之音可以挖掘 好奇舞台剧改编会具象化还是抽象化表现人物回忆 Laura Linney应该是很合适的!
评分Anything Is Possible的前篇,Lucy为何不愿回家,为何不爱她妈,为何要背井离乡前往NYC,不就因为童年不堪,被太薄对待,都能在这一本书里找到答案。语言简单但也啰嗦,作者本人的文风如斯。Style of Elizabeth Strout.
评分每个作家其实“都只有一个故事要说”。(2019.9.14@ sz)
评分趁着写完长篇的精疲力竭阶段一口气看完的。很薄的一本书花了足足三天。还是斯特劳特一贯的风格,貌似平淡却让人时不时得停下来出出神。同时也和其他长篇一样,比短篇会直白一些。最喜欢最后那段写平原日落的,只想使劲点头“嗯啊,你懂的”。No one comes from nothing in this world.
评分about relations, 精神分析的自我觉知的
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