Elizabeth Strout is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Olive, Again; Anything Is Possible, winner of the Story Prize; My Name Is Lucy Barton; The Burgess Boys; Olive Kitteridge, for which she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize; Abide with Me; and Amy and Isabelle, winner of the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize. She has also been a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize in London. She lives in Maine.
“One proof of Strout’s greatness is the sleight of hand with which
she injects sneaky subterranean power into seemingly transparent
prose. Strout works in the realm of everyday speech, conjuring
repetitions, gaps and awkwardness with plain language and
forthright diction, yet at the same time unleashing a tidal urgency
that seems to come out of nowhere even as it operates in plain
sight.”—The New York Times Book Review
“So much intimate, fragile, desperate humanness infuses these
pages, it’s breathtaking. Almost every declaration carries the
force of revelation.”—The Washington Post
“For all the depths of anger and despair they uncover, and the
bitterness they attest to, Strout’s works insist on the su-
perabundance of life, the unrealized bliss always immanent in
it.”—The New York Review of Books
“Being privy to the innermost thoughts of Lucy Barton—and, more to
the point, deep inside a book by Strout—makes readers feel safe. We
know we’re in good hands.”—NPR
“Strout’s simple declarative sentences contain continents. Who is
better at conveying loneliness, the inability to communicate, to
say the deep important things? Who better to illustrate the
legacies of imperfect upbringings, of inadequate parents? When
William explains that what attracted him to Lucy was her sense of
joy, the reader can only agree. This brilliant, compelling, tender
novel is—quite simply—a joy.”—The Boston Globe
“Strout doesn’t dress language up in a tuxedo when a wool sweater
will suffice. Other novelists must berate themselves when they see
what Strout pulls off without any tacky pyrotechnics.”—Los Angeles
Times
“The miraculous quality of Strout’s fiction is the way she opens up
depths with the simplest of touches, and this novel ends with the
assurance that the source of love lies less in understanding than
in recognition—although it may take a lifetime to learn the
difference.”—The Guardian
“At the core of . . . Strout’s best-selling fiction are characters
grappling with huge questions about love, loss and family through
seemingly ordinary moments. The domestic dramas that fill her books
lead to startling revelations about the complexities that accompany
marriage, parenthood and growing old. Her new novel is no
exception.”—Time
“[Strout] invests us deeply in Lucy’s epiphany: Even though we are
fueled by presumptions and believe what we want to believe, the
truth is always within our sight.”—Star Tribune
“[Oh William!] serves as a gentle reminder to be emotionally
generous with our loved ones and as physically present as possible
each and every day of our lives.”—San Francisco Chronicle
“Keenly observed and rich with illuminating insight, Strout’s
tender mercies continue to astound.”—Esquire
“The Pulitzer Prize–winning [Oprah’s Book Club] author reprises her
literary avatar, Lucy Barton, in this radiant—if
melancholy—contemplation of marriage, mortality, and love’s
complexities.”—Oprah Daily
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