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    My Name Is Lucy Barton: A Novel
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    My Name Is Lucy Barton: A Novel

    Written by Elizabeth Strout

    Narrated by Kimberly Farr

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    About this audiobook

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE • A simple hospital visit becomes a portal to the tender relationship between mother and daughter in this extraordinary novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Olive Kitteridge and The Burgess Boys.

    NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
    The Washington Post • The New York Times Book Review • NPR • BookPage • LibraryReads • Minneapolis Star Tribune • St. Louis Post-Dispatch

    Look for Elizabeth Strout's highly anticipated new work of fiction, Anything Is Possible, which is available for pre-order now.

    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.

    Praise for My Name Is Lucy Barton

    "There is not a scintilla of sentimentality in this exquisite novel. Instead, in its careful words and vibrating silences, My Name Is Lucy Barton offers us a rare wealth of emotion, from darkest suffering to-'I was so happy. Oh, I was happy'-simple joy."-Claire Messud, The New York Times Book Review

    "Spectacular . . . Smart and cagey in every way. It is both a book of withholdings and a book of great openness and wisdom. . . . [Strout] is in supreme and magnificent command of this novel at all times."-Lily King, The Washington Post
     
    "A short novel about love, particularly the complicated love between mothers and daughters, but also simpler, more sudden bonds . . . It evokes these connections in a style so spare, so pure and so profound the book almost seems to be a kind of scripture or sutra, if a very down-to-earth and unpretentious one."-Marion Winik, Newsday
     
    "Potent with distilled emotion. Without a hint of self-pity, Strout captures the ache of loneliness we all feel sometimes."-Time

    "An aching, illuminating look at mother-daughter devotion."-People

    "A quiet, sublimely merciful contemporary novel about love, yearning, and resilience in a family damaged beyond words."-The Boston Globe

    "Sensitive, deceptively simple . . . It is Lucy's gentle honesty, complex relationship with her husband, and nuanced response to her mother's shortcomings that make this novel so subtly powerful. . . . [It's] more complex than it first appears, and all the more emotionally persuasive for it."-San Francisco Chronicle

    "Strout maps the complex terrain of human relationships by focusing on that which is often unspoken and only implied. . . . A powerful addition to Strout's body of work."-The Seattle Times

    "[Strout] reminds us of the power of our stories-and our ability to transcend our troubled narratives."-Miami Herald

    "Magnificent."-Ann Patchett
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateJan 12, 2016
    ISBN9780307967121
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    My Name Is Lucy Barton: A Novel
    Author

    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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    • 5/5
      This book is engrossing, the characters are believable, well developed
      and interesting. Listened to the audiobook at every opportunity. Well worth my time and attention.
    • 5/5
      Powerful. Haunting. Keenly observant. The audio version is, quite simply, terrific.
    • 4/5
      I love how Lucy & her mother had unspoken love for one another. But I think her mother was just a stubborn old broad. Although, it also makes me think about how different everyone is raised up. Growing up doesn't always mean that you're always put together. Everyone has their own trials and tribulations.
    • 5/5
      Captivating character story. Heartbreaking yet warm and inviting. The author has a wonderful handle on the culture of poverty.
    • 4/5
      A low paced novel where not much action, but the writing... oh my God!! it's gorgeous and contemplative and it makes you ache. I really enjoyed the narrator as well, her voice was perfect as Lucy Barton.
    • 5/5
      What a masterpiece of writing. It snuck up on me and landed in my belly. So different that it is little wonder so many reviews are negative. Elizabeth Strout took Emily Dickenson's poem "Tell all the truth but tell it slant" and did exactly that.
    • 5/5
      Touching, universally human story, genuinly written. It took me only 3 days to go through it with fascination
    • 1/5
      What!?? I don’t understand. The author said absolutely nothing of substance for the entire book.