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My name is Lucy Barton : a novel / Elizabeth Strout.
FP 175,000. The profound mother-daughter bond is explored through a mother's hospital visit to her estranged daughter by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of OLIVE KITTERIDGE and BURGESS BOYS. Lucy Barton, a writer, married with two young children, is in the hospital in New York City due to an infection from a simple appendix operation. (Her medical condition is incidental - it's not about the illness). Her mother, whom she hasn't seen in years, comes from Amgash, Illinois, to visit her, and sits by her bedside, reminiscing about people she and Lucy know from Lucy's childhood, before Lucy went off to college and never returned.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781400067695 (hardcover) :
- Physical Description: 193 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Random House, 2016.
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| Subject: | Mothers and daughters > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Domestic fiction. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Cookstown Branch | FIC Strou | 31681002813095 | FICTION | Available | - |
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After an appendix operation puts her in the hospital, New York writer Lucy Barton reconnects with her estranged mother as the pair reminisce about the past. - Baker & Taylor
After an appendix operation puts her in the hospital, New York writer Lucy Barton reconnects with her estranged mother as the pair reminisce about the past. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Olive Kitteridge. - Random House, Inc.
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ⢠A simple hospital visit becomes a portal to the tender relationship between mother and daughter in this extraordinary novel by the Pulitzer Prizeâwinning author of Olive Kitteridge and The Burgess Boys.
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Lucy Barton is recovering slowly from what should have been a simple operation. Her mother, to whom she hasnât spoken for many years, comes to see her. Gentle gossip about people from Lucyâs childhood in Amgash, Illinois, seems to reconnect them, but just below the surface lie the tension and longing that have informed every aspect of Lucyâs 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.
LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE
Praise for My Name Is Lucy Barton
âA quiet, sublimely merciful contemporary novel about love, yearning, and resilience in a family damaged beyond words.ââThe Boston Globe
âIt is Lucyâs gentle honesty, complex relationship with her husband, and nuanced response to her motherâs shortcomings that make this novel so subtly powerful.ââSan Francisco Chronicle
âA 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.ââNewsday
âSpectacular . . . 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.ââLily King, The Washington Post
âAn aching, illuminating look at mother-daughter devotion.ââPeople
âThis slim, perceptive novel packs more sentiment and pain into its unsparingly honest and forthright prose than novels two and three times as long. Strout . . . has always awed us with her ability to put into words the mysterious and unfathomable ways in which people cherish each other.ââChicago Tribune
