Elizabeth Strout, Author . Random $24.95 (294p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6207-2
Strout's satisfying follow-up to her 1999 debut, Amy and Isabel
, follows a recent widower from grief through breakdown to recovery in 1959 smalltown Maine. The father of two young girls and the newly appointed minister of the fictional town of...
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Elizabeth Strout, Author . Random $24.95 (270p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6208-9
Thirteen linked tales from Strout (Abide with Me
, etc.) present a heart-wrenching, penetrating portrait of ordinary coastal Mainers living lives of quiet grief intermingled with flashes of human connection. The opening “Pharmacy”...
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Elizabeth Strout, Author Random House Inc $22.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-375-50134-0
Stories of young women who suffer the sexual advances of an authority figure (in this case, a high school math teacher) seem ubiquitous these days. But in Strout's gently powerful, richly satisfying debut, the damage shows less within the heart of...
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Elizabeth Strout. Random, $26 (320p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6768-8
Strout’s follow-up to her 2009 Pulitzer Prize winner Olive Kitteridge links a trio of middle-aged siblings with a group of Somali immigrants in a familiar story about isolation within families and communities. The Burgesses have troubles both public
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Elizabeth Strout. Random, $26 (208p) ISBN 978-1-400-06769-5
Despite its slim length, Strout’s (The Burgess Boys) tender and moving novel should be read slowly, to savor the depths beneath what at first seems a simple story of a mother-daughter reconciliation. Lucy Barton is shocked when her mother, from whom
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Elizabeth Strout. Random House, $27 (272p) ISBN 978-0-8129-8940-3
In her latest work, Strout achieves new levels of masterful storytelling. Damaged lives can be redeemed but, as she eloquently demonstrates in this powerful, sometimes shocking, often emotionally wrenching novel, the emotional scars can last forever.
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Elizabeth Strout, Author, Sandra Burr, Read by Brilliance Corporation $36.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4233-5003-3
Strout's tale of an aging schoolteacher too obsessed with the deterioration of her little town of Crosby, Maine, to realize the problems plaguing her own life, is read with vigor by Sandra Burr. Burr's reading makes Strout's characters rich and...
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Elizabeth Strout, read by Cassandra Campbell. Random House Audio, unabridged, 11 CDs, 13.5 hrs., $45 ISBN 978-0-307-96707-7
Brothers Jim and Bob, both lawyers, revisit their roots when sister Susan beckons them back to Shirley Falls, Maine, to help deal with her son’s legal shenanigans. But returning home means stirring up all the issues and emotions that the three...
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Elizabeth Strout, read by Kimberly Farr. Random House Audio, 4 hrs., $30 ISBN 978-0-307-96711-4
Author Strout and reader Farr have produced a masterly fusion of material that could easily have become maudlin but never does. It is a simple, yet deep depiction of the fierce love and intense pain of a mother-daughter relationship. At the request...
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Elizabeth Strout, Author, Gerrianne Raphael, Read by , read by Gerrianne Raphael. Random House Audio $29.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7393-2468-4
In Strout's graceful if languid second novel, set in the cold northern reaches of New England during the Cold War, Tyler Caskey is a young minister tending to the faith of his small, gossipy parish. He's also struggling with the aftermath of
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Elizabeth Strout. Random House, $27 (304p) ISBN 978-0-8129-9654-8
As direct, funny, sad, and human as its heroine, Strout’s welcome follow-up to Olive Kitteridge portrays the cantankerous retired math teacher in old age. The novel, set in small-town coastal Crosby, Maine, unfolds like its predecessor through 13...
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Elizabeth Strout. Random House, $27 (256p) ISBN 978-0-8129-8943-4
Loneliness and betrayal, themes to which the Pulitzer Prize–winning Strout has returned throughout her career, are ever present in this illuminating character-driven saga, the third in her Amgash series, after Anything Is Possible. Narrated by Lucy...
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Elizabeth Strout. Random House, $28 (292p) ISBN 978-0-593-44606-5
Strout follows up Oh William! with a captivating entry in the Lucy Barton series. This time, Lucy decamps to rural Maine during the first year of the Covid lockdown. At the pandemic’s onset in 2020, Lucy’s philandering ex-husband and longtime friend,
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Edited by Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman. Avid Reader, $27 (288p) ISBN 978-1-5011-9040-7
Husband and wife Chabon (Moonglow) and Waldman (A Really Good Day) gather dozens of prominent writers to commemorate the ACLU’s centennial with powerful, inspiring essays on the legal organization’s milestone cases. Addressing City of Chicago v....
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Elizabeth Strout. Random House, $30 (336p) ISBN 978-0-593-44609-6
The latest from Pulitzer winner Strout (Olive Kitteridge) brings together characters from her previous novels for a masterly meditation on storytelling. After 86-year-old Mainer Gloria Beach is found dead in a quarry, semi-retired lawyer Bob Burgess
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