Oh William!
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2022
$23.84
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
17 May 2022
Summary
Lucy Barton is a successful writer living in New York, navigating the second half of her life as a recent widow and parent to two adult daughters. A surprise encounter leads her to reconnect with William, her first husband—and longtime, on-again-off-again friend and confidante. Recalling their college years, the birth of their daughters, the painful dissolution of their marriage, and the lives they built with other people, Strout weaves a portrait, stunning in its subtlety, of a decades-long …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241992210 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241992214 |
| Author: | Elizabeth Strout |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 17 May 2022 |
| Weight: | 210g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 128mm x 20mm |
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One proof of Elizabeth Strout’s greatness is the sleight of hand with which she injects sneaky subterranean power into seemingly transparent prose. Strout works in the realm of everyday speech, conjuring repetitions, gaps and awkwardness with plain language and forthright diction, yet at the same time unleashing a tidal urgency that seems to come out of nowhere even as it operates in plain sight – Jennifer Egan * New York Times *Strout is not only mercilessly funny on the page, she’s also unerringly precise about the long-term effects of loneliness, parental neglect and betrayal … The final scene between William and Lucy has been carouselling in my mind for days now … devastating and vital, bleak and tender * Sunday Times *
What sets Strout’s work apart is her characterisation … Long on empathy while steering clear of sentimentality, her prose bears the minerality of a crisp white wine, with a seeming simplicity that belies its profound power
* FT *About The Author
Elizabeth Strout
Elizabeth Strout is the Pulitzer prize-winning author of Olive Kitteridge, as well as The Burgess Boys, a New York Times bestseller, Abide With Me and Amy and Isabelle, which won the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize. She has also been a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize. She lives in Portland, Maine.
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