Elizabeth Strout
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"Olive Kitteridge has returned, as indomitable as ever, this time as a person getting older, navigating her next decade as she comes to terms with the changes--sometimes welcome, sometimes not--in her own life. Here is Olive, strangely content in her second marriage, still in an evolving relationship with her son and his family, encountering a cast of memorable characters in the seaside town of Crosby, Maine. Whether it's a young girl coming to terms...
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Amgash novels volume 4
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"As a panicked world goes into lockdown, Lucy Barton is uprooted from her life in Manhattan and bundled away to a small town in Maine by her ex-husband and on-again, off-again friend, William. For the next several months, it's just Lucy, William, and their complex past together in a little house nestled against the moody, swirling sea. Rich with empathy and emotion, Lucy by the Sea vividly captures the fear and struggles that come with isolation,...
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Haunted by the freak accident that killed their father when they were children, Jim and Bob Burgess escaped from their Maine hometown of Shirley Falls for New York City as soon as they possibly could. Jim, a sleek, successful corporate lawyer, has belittled his bighearted brother their whole lives, and Bob, a Legal Aid attorney who idolizes Jim, has always taken it in stride. But their long-standing dynamic is upended when their sister, Susan -- the...
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The debut novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Olive Kitteridge evokes a teenager's alienation from her distant mother, and a parent's rage at the discovery of her daughter's secrets.
“One of those rare, invigorating books that take an apparently familiar world and peer into it with ruthless intimacy, revealing a strange and startling place.”—The New York Times Book Review
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“One of those rare, invigorating books that take an apparently familiar world and peer into it with ruthless intimacy, revealing a strange and startling place.”—The New York Times Book Review
Before...
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"Lucy Barton is a writer, but her ex-husband, William, remains a hard man to read. 'William,' she confesses, 'has always been a mystery to me.' Another mystery is why the two have remained connected after all these years. They just are. So Lucy is both surprised and not surprised when William asks her to join him on a trip to investigate a recently uncovered family secret - one of those secrets that rearrange everything we think we know about the...
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Amgash novels volume 2
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"Anything Is Possible explores the whole range of human emotion through the intimate dramas of people struggling to understand themselves and others. Here are two sisters: One trades self-respect for a wealthy husband while the other finds in the pages of a book a kindred spirit who changes her life. The janitor at the local school has his faith tested in an encounter with an isolated man he has come to help; a grown daughter longs for mother love...
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In the small town of West Annett, Maine in the 1950's, the minister Tyler Caskey is still grieving two years after the death of his wife. One daughter, Jeannie is sent upstate to live with his overbearing mother. The other Katherine has become antisocial. Tyler turns to his housekeeper Connie Hatch when her teacher suggests Katherine speak to the school counselor. This starts gossip about Katherine's stability and Tyler's possible affair with the...
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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...
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Clinton - NYT Critics 100 Best Books
Clinton - NYT Readers' 100 Best Books
WILBRAHAM - BFL Over the Years
Clinton - NYT Readers' 100 Best Books
WILBRAHAM - BFL Over the Years
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The world of Olive Kitteridge, a retired school teacher in a small coastal town in Maine, is revealed in stories that explore her diverse roles in many lives, including a lounge singer haunted by a past love, her stoic husband, and her own resentful son.
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Amgash volume 5
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"With her "extraordinary capacity for radical empathy" (The Boston Globe), remarkable insight into the human condition, and silences that contain multitudes, Elizabeth Strout returns to the town of Crosby, Maine, and to her beloved cast of characters as they deal with a shocking crime in their midst; fall in love and yet choose to be apart; and grapple with the question, as Lucy Barton puts it: What does anyone's life mean? It's autumn in Maine, and...
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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • The beloved first novel featuring Olive Kitteridge, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of My Name is Lucy Barton and the Oprah’s Book Club pick Olive, Again
“Fiction lovers, remember this name: Olive Kitteridge. . . . You’ll never forget her.”—USA Today
“Strout animates the ordinary...
“Fiction lovers, remember this name: Olive Kitteridge. . . . You’ll never forget her.”—USA Today
“Strout animates the ordinary...
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HarperCollins
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2013
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“As our vision becomes more global, our storytelling is stretching in many ways. Stories increasingly change point of view, switch location, and sometimes pack as much material as a short novel might,” writes guest editor Elizabeth Strout. “It’s the variety of voices that most indicates the increasing confluence of cultures involved in making us who we are.” The Best American Short Stories 2013 presents an impressive...
13) Olive Kitteridge
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Olive novels volume 1
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ALFAGUARA
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2020
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ROMANCE VENCEDOR DO PULITZER PRIZE
A obra mais importante e comovente de Elizabeth Strout, autora premiada de O meu nome é Lucy Barton e Tudo é possível
Em Crosby, uma pacata povoação costeira no Maine, todos conhecem Olive Kitteridge, a temível professora de Matemática do liceu, agora reformada, e Henry, o seu marido, farmacêutico gentil.
E talvez não haja ninguém que conheça tão bem quanto Olive os segredos e os dramas dos habitantes...
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"The uncannily relevant, deliciously clear-eyed collected stories of a critically acclaimed, award-winning "American literary treasure" (Boston Globe), ripe for rediscovery--with a foreword by Elizabeth Strout. From her many well-loved novels, Hilma Wolitzer--now 90 years old and at the top of her game--has gained a reputation as one of our best fiction writers, who "raises ordinary people and everyday occurrences to a new height." (Washington Post)...
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phantom press
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2020.
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"Koli︠u︡chai︠a︡, rezkai︠a︡, stoĭkai︠a︡ k peremenam, Olivii︠a︡ Kitteridzh - voploshchenie zhiznennoĭ sily. Novyĭ sbornik rasskazov pro Olivii︠u︡ Pulitt︠s︡erovskogo laureata Ėlizabet Straut. Olivii︠a︡ pytaetsi︠a︡ poni︠a︡tʹ ne tolʹko sebi︠a︡, svoi chuvstva, no i vse, chto proiskhodit vokrug nee, zhiznʹ li︠u︡deĭ. Budʹ to devochka-podrostok, osoznavai︠a︡ svoi︠u︡ seksualʹnostʹ; ili molodai︠a︡...
16) Akh, Vilʹi︠a︡m!
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Amgash volume 3
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Fantom Press
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[2023]
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«Pisatelʹnit͡sa Li͡usi Barton davno v razvode so svoim pervym muzhem Vilʹi͡amom, s kotorym prozhila v brake mnogo let i vyrastila dvukh dochereĭ. No kogda u Li͡usi umiraet vtoroĭ muzh, a Vilʹi͡ama brosaet zhena, oni ishchut podderzhki drug u druga i vmeste otpravli͡ai͡utsi͡a v Mėn na poiski sestry Vilʹi͡ama, o sushchestvovanii kotoroĭ on do nedavnikh por ne podozreval. Sobytii͡a nastoi͡ashchego perepletai͡utsi͡a v rasskaze Li͡usi...
17) Lucy y el mar
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Alfaguara/Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
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[2023]
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"Vuelve la icónica Lucy Barton en esta deslumbrante novela sobre el amor, la pérdida y la esperanza. A medida que el miedo se apodera de su ciudad, Lucy Barton abandona Manhattan y se confina en un pueblo de Maine con su exmarido, William. Durante los siguientes meses quedarán ellos dos, compañeros después de tantos años, a solas con su complejo pasado en una pequeña casa junto a un mar impetuoso, una experiencia de la que saldrán transformados....
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Duomo ediciones
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2022.
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En una habitación de hospital en pleno centro de Manhattan, delante del iluminado edificio Chrysler, cuyo perfil se recorta al otro lado de la ventana, dos mujeres hablan sin descanso durante cinco días y cinco noches. Hace muchos años que no se ven, pero el flujo de su conversación parece capaz de detener el tiempo y silenciar el ruido ensordecedor de todo lo que no se dice. En esa habitación de hospital, durante cinco días y cinco noches,...
20) Olive Kitteridge
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Home Box Office, Inc
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[2015]
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The four-part drama that tells the story of a seemingly placid New England town that is actually wrought with illicit affairs, crime and tragedy, all told through the lens of Olive, whose wicked wit and harsh demeanor mask a warm but troubled heart and staunch moral center. The story spans 25 years and focuses on Olive's relationships with her husband, Henry, the good-hearted and kindly town pharmacist; their son, Christopher, who resents his mother's...