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    Abide with Me: A Novel

    Written by Elizabeth Strout

    Narrated by Gerrianne Raphael

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    NATIONAL BESTSELLER

    In her luminous and long-awaited novel, bestselling author Elizabeth Strout welcomes readers back to the archetypal, lovely landscape of northern New England, where the events of her first novel, Amy and Isabelle, unfolded. In the late 1950s, in the small town of West Annett, Maine, a minister struggles to regain his calling, his family, and his happiness in the wake of profound loss. At the same time, the community he has served so charismatically must come to terms with its own strengths and failings-faith and hypocrisy, loyalty and abandonment-when a dark secret is revealed.

    Tyler Caskey has come to love West Annett, "just up the road" from where he was born. The short, brilliant summers and the sharp, piercing winters fill him with awe-as does his congregation, full of good people who seek his guidance and listen earnestly as he preaches. But after suffering a terrible loss, Tyler finds it hard to return to himself as he once was. He hasn't had The Feeling-that God is all around him, in the beauty of the world-for quite some time. He struggles to find the right words in his sermons and in his conversations with those facing crises of their own, and to bring his five-year-old daughter, Katherine, out of the silence she has observed in the wake of the family's tragedy.

    A congregation that had once been patient and kind during Tyler's grief now questions his leadership and propriety. In the kitchens, classrooms, offices, and stores of the village, anger and gossip have started to swirl. And in Tyler's darkest hour, a startling discovery will test his congregation' s humanity-and his own will to endure the kinds of trials that sooner or later test us all.

    In prose incandescent and artful, Elizabeth Strout draws readers into the details of ordinary life in a way that makes it extraordinary. All is considered-life, love, God, and community-within these pages, and all is made new by this writer's boundless compassion and graceful prose.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateMar 14, 2006
    ISBN9780739324691
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    Abide with Me: A Novel
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    Elizabeth Strout

    Elizabeth Strout is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Burgess Boys; Olive Kitteridge, for which she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize; the national bestseller 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.

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      Simply beautiful! I am longing for its characters, now, that I am finished with it. Well read too. A wonderful performance.
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      This book disapppointed me. After reading the last book If This World Were Mine, I was just waiting for a similar high quality book and this was not it.After making it big, E Lynn Harris decided to water down his writing or rush it. It was not polished and the story telling was weak. This book was not provocative or innovative. It seems that fame and success will lead to the downfall of such a revealing storyline such as Down-Low Syndrome