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Elizabeth Strout

My Name Is Lucy Barton

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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,…
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  • Дарья Расковаshared an impression5 years ago
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    Элизабет Страут пишет одну и ту де книгу: про взаимоотношения детей с родителями. здесь — с мамой. иногда так метко, что перехватывает дыхание.

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    • Дарья Расковаhas quoted5 years ago
      You will have only one story,” she had said. “You’ll write your one story many ways. Don’t ever worry about story. You have only one.”
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      • Дарья Расковаhas quoted5 years ago
        I have said before: It interests me how we find ways to feel superior to another person, another group of people. It happens everywhere, and all the time. Whatever we call it, I think it’s the lowest part of who we are, this need to find someone else to put down.
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        • Дарья Расковаhas quoted5 years ago
          thought, Pity us. We don’t mean to be so small. Pity us — it goes through my head a lot — Pity us all.
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