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Elizabeth Strout

    6 gennaio 1956

    Elizabeth Strout crea romanzi che approfondiscono le complessità dell'esperienza umana con profonda empatia e acuta intuizione. Il suo lavoro è celebrato per i suoi ritratti intimi della vita ordinaria, esplorando le sottili sfumature della memoria, dell'identità e della ricerca di significato. La distintiva voce narrativa e la profondità psicologica di Strout risuonano profondamente, offrendo ai lettori una potente esplorazione della condizione umana.

    Elizabeth Strout
    Tell Me Everything
    Lucy by the Sea
    Olive, ancora lei
    Oggi una donna è andata fuori di testa al supermercato
    Olive Kitteridge
    Resta con me
    • Tyler Caskey è una presenza insolita per la comunità di West Arinett. È giovane e i suoi sermoni sono brillanti, frutto di una preparazione e di una sensibilità fuori dal comune. Ed è diverso dalle precedenti guide spirituali che i fedeli hanno conosciuto perché ha carisma, e una moglie di grande bellezza e sensualità accanto. Quasi uno schiaffo di vitalità per tutta la cittadina. Eppure un giorno tutto può cambiare, l'attrazione trasformarsi in sospetto e maldicenza. La giovane signora Caskey muore. Una morte che travolgerà il marito e le loro bambine in modo irreversibile. La figlia maggiore, Katherine, di appena cinque anni, smette di parlare chiudendosi in un silenzio impenetrabile; Tyler non trova più le parole adatte in chiesa, né alcuna misericordia per chi si rivela ottuso, arido, distante. Cosa resta, quindi, del conforto religioso? Poco o niente, se di fronte alla fragilità di un lutto che si apre come una voragine, nessuno riesce a compenetrarsi nel dolore altrui, se le meschinità di un quotidiano prosciugato di ogni calore si moltiplicano tra le mille illazioni che corrono lungo i fili del telefono propagando sciocche storie di adulterio o di malattia mentale.

      Resta con me
    • In March 2020 Lucy's ex-husband William pleads with her to leave New York and escape to a coastal house he has rented in Maine. Lucy reluctantly agrees, leaving the washing-up in the sink, expecting to be back in a week or two. Weeks turn into months, and it's just Lucy, William, and their complex past together in a little house nestled against the sea. Rich with empathy and a searing clarity, Lucy by the Sea evokes the fragility and uncertainty of the recent past, as well as the possibilities that those long, quiet days can inspire. At the heart of this miraculous novel are the deep human connections that sustain us, even as the world seems to be falling apart.

      Lucy by the Sea
    • Tell Me Everything

      • 329pagine
      • 12 ore di lettura

      THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING, BOOKER-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR 'Stunning, deeply felt and profoundly intelligent' Guardian It's autumn in Maine, and the town lawyer Bob Burgess has become enmeshed in an unfolding murder investigation, defending a lonely, isolated man accused of killing his mother. He has also fallen into a deep and abiding friendship with the acclaimed writer, Lucy Barton, who lives nearby in a house next to the sea. Together, Lucy and Bob talk about their lives, their hopes and regrets, and what might have been. Lucy, meanwhile, befriends one of Crosby's longest inhabitants, Olive Kitteridge, now living in a retirement community on the edge of town. They spend afternoons together in Olive's apartment, telling each other stories. Stories about people they have known - "unrecorded lives," Olive calls them - reanimating them, and, in the process, imbuing their lives with meaning. Brimming with empathy and pathos, TELL ME EVERYTHING is Elizabeth Strout operating at the height of her powers, illuminating the ways in which our relationships keep us afloat. As Lucy says, "Love comes in so many different forms, but it is always love." 'A superbly gifted storyteller and a craftswoman in a league of her own' Hilary Mantel 'A terrific writer' Zadie Smith 'Strout's ability to reveal the wonder in unrecorded lives continues to astonish' Telegraph OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK: 'A beautiful read reminding us that there is extraordinary love in ordinary actions' Oprah Winfrey Elizabeth Strout, Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, 2022

      Tell Me Everything
    • Olive, Again

      • 304pagine
      • 11 ore di lettura

      An extraordinary new novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Number One New York Times bestselling author of Olive Kitteridge and My Name is Lucy Barton 'A superbly gifted storyteller and a craftswoman in a league of her own' Hilary Mantel Olive, Again follows the blunt, contradictory yet deeply loveable Olive Kitteridge as she grows older, navigating the second half of her life as she comes to terms with the changes - sometimes welcome, sometimes not - in her own existence and in those around her. Olive adjusts to her new life with her second husband, challenges her estranged son and his family to accept him, experiences loss and loneliness, witnesses the triumphs and heartbreaks of her friends and neighbours in the small coastal town of Crosby, Maine - and, finally, opens herself to new lessons about life. 'A powerful storyteller immersed in the nuances of human relationships' Observer 'She gets better with each book' Maggie O'Farrell 'One of America's finest writers' Sunday Times

      Olive, Again
    • From the author of Tell Me Everything, My Name is Lucy Barton and Olive Kitteridge: Elizabeth Strout's celebrated fourth novel The Burgess Boys Haunted by the freak accident that killed their father when they were children, Jim and Bob Burgess escaped from their Maine hometown for New York as soon as they could. Jim, a successful corporate lawyer, has belittled his bighearted brother their whole lives, something that Bob, a legal aid attorney who idolises Jim, has always taken in his stride. But when their sister desperately calls them back home to Shirley Falls to help her teenage son out of trouble, long-buried tensions begin to surface in unexpected ways that will change them forever. A stunning story about the tragedies and triumphs of two brothers, from the bestselling author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Olive Kitteridge. Exploring the ties that bind us to family and home, this novel will resonate with readers long after they turn the final page. Praise for Elizabeth Strout ‘Astonishingly good’ Evening Standard 'So good it gave me goosebumps’ Sunday Times ‘Strout animates the ordinary with astonishing force’ The New Yorker 'A superbly gifted storyteller and a craftswoman in a league of her own' Hilary Mantel

      The Burgess Boys
    • Lucy Barton is a writer, but her ex-husband, William, remains a hard man to read. 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

      Oh William! :