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Elizabeth Strout’s New York Times bestselling novel My Name is Lucy Barton follows the titular character on a journey of healing. Published in 2016, My Name is Lucy Barton explores the impact of trauma as Lucy navigates her reunion with her estranged mother. Longlisted for the 2016 Man Booker Prize, My Name is Lucy Barton was adapted for the ...
Oct 10, 2022 · My Name is Lucy Barton (2016) tells Lucy’s backstory in hindsight from her hospital bed. Raised in Amgash, Illinois, Barton’s family home was violent because of her father and alienating because of her mother. Finding solace in writing, Barton cuts herself off from her family as an adult. A reunion is forced when her husband, William, a man ...
Jan 12, 2016 · Knitting this powerful narrative together is the brilliant storytelling voice of Lucy herself: keenly observant, deeply human, and truly unforgettable. Praise for My Name Is Lucy Barton. “A quiet, sublimely merciful contemporary novel about love, yearning, and resilience in a family damaged beyond words.”—. The Boston Globe.
Oct 11, 2016 · Reading My Name Is Lucy Barton, I was frequently put in mind of Hemingway’s famous injunction to write ‘the truest sentence that you know.’” — The Wall Street Journal “Impressionistic and haunting . . . With Lucy Barton, [Strout] reminds us of the power of our stories—and our ability to transcend our troubled narratives.”
Jan 20, 2020 · Elizabeth Strout’s novel “ My Name Is Lucy Barton ” is the story of a writer reckoning with the legacy of a scarred family life and slowly coming to terms with the costs and the rewards of ...
Jan 5, 2016 · She re-creates in magical detail the lives of Alaska's homesteaders in both of the state's seasons (they really only have two) and is just as specific and authentic in her depiction of the spiritual wounds of post-Vietnam America. A tour de force. Share your opinion of this book. From Pulitzer Prize–winning Strout (The Burgess Boys, 2013, etc ...
Time: 1960s–2000s. Locales: New York City; Amgash, Illinois. My Name Is Lucy Barton tells the story of its protagonist, Lucy Barton, through a series of flashbacks to her past, particularly a ...
