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Oh William! : a novel / Elizabeth Strout.
"Strout's iconic heroine Lucy Barton recounts her complex, tender relationship with William, her first husband--and longtime, on-again-off-again friend and confidante."-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780812989434 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 240 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Random House, [2021]
- Copyright: ©2021
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| Subject: | Divorced people > Fiction. Families > Fiction. Family secrets > Fiction. Friendship > Fiction. Man-woman relationships > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Domestic fiction. |
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- 2 of 2 copies available at Tsuga Consortium.
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- 0 current holds with 2 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Cookstown Branch | FIC Strou | 31681010253979 | FICTION | Available | - |
| Stroud Branch | FIC Strou | 31681010253953 | FICTION | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
"Strout's iconic heroine Lucy Barton recounts her complex, tender relationship with William, her first husband -- and longtime, on-again-off-again friend and confidante"-- - Baker & Taylor
The iconic heroine of My Name is Lucy Barton recounts her complicated, compassionate relationship with William, her first husbandâand longtime, on-again-off-again friend and confidantâand the lives they eventually built with other people. - Random House, Inc.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ⢠BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST ⢠The Pulitzer Prizeâwinning author of Olive Kitteridge and My Name is Lucy Barton explores the mysteries of marriage and the secrets we keep, as a former couple reckons with where theyâve come fromâand what theyâve left behind.
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ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Maureen Corrigan, NPRâs Fresh Air
âElizabeth Strout is one of my very favorite writers, so the fact that Oh William! may well be my favorite of her books is a mathematical equation for joy. The depth, complexity, and love contained in these pages is a miraculous achievement.ââAnn Patchett, author of The Dutch House
I would like to say a few things about my first husband, William.Â
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.Â
So Lucy is both surprised and not surprised when William asks her to join him on a trip to investigate a recently uncovered family secretâone of those secrets that rearrange everything we think we know about the people closest to us. There are fears and insecurities, simple joys and acts of tenderness, and revelations about affairs and other spouses, parents and their children. On every page of this exquisite novel we learn more about the quiet forces that hold us togetherâeven after weâve grown apart.Â
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A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, Time, Vulture, She Reads
