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Olive, enfin

Autor: Elizabeth Strout

Número de Páginas: 371

Dans la petite ville côtière de Crosby, dans le Maine, Olive Kitteridge est connue – et redoutée – pour son caractère bien trempé et son franc-parler détonant. Professeure de maths retraitée, veuve depuis peu, elle apprend à négocier les épreuves mais aussi à apprécier les joies que lui réserve cette nouvelle période de sa vie : bientôt, Olive se remarie, renoue avec son fils, essaie d’apprivoiser ces créatures étonnantes que sont ses petits enfants, et, surtout, le temps qui passe. Au fil des années, elle croise sur son chemin nombre de connaissances, amis ou anciens élèves : une jeune femme sur le point d’accoucher au moment le plus incongru, une autre qui vit recroquevillée depuis qu’elle a un cancer, ou encore une fille confrontée à l’effroi de ses parents lorsqu’elle leur révèle exercer la profession de maîtresse SM. Dans le sillage d’Olive, on pousse des portes et découvre les histoires, les drames et les destinées singulières des habitants de Crosby. Une fois encore, Elizabeth Strout met brillamment à nu la vie des gens ordinaires et livre un roman superbe, tendre, mélancolique et plein d’humour sur le couple, l’amour, la...

Je m'appelle Lucy Barton

Autor: Elizabeth Strout

Número de Páginas: 168

Hospitalisée à la suite d’une opération, Lucy Barton reçoit la visite impromptue de sa mère, avec laquelle elle avait perdu tout contact. Tandis que celle-ci se perd en commérages, convoquant les fantômes du passé, Lucy se trouve plongée dans les souvenirs de son enfance dans une petite ville de l’Illinois – la pauvreté extrême, honteuse, la rudesse de son père, et finalement son départ pour New York, qui l’a définitivement isolée des siens. Peu à peu, Lucy est amenée à évoquer son propre mariage, ses deux filles, et ses débuts de romancière dans le New York des années 1980. Une vie entière se déploie à travers le récit lucide et pétri d’humanité de Lucy, tout en éclairant la relation entre une mère et sa fille, faite d’incompréhension, d’incommunicabilité, mais aussi d’une entente profonde. Salué comme un chef-d’oeuvre par la critique littéraire aux États-Unis, Je m’appelle Lucy Barton est un grand roman contemporain sur la solitude, le désir et l’amour.

Lucy face à la mer

Autor: Elizabeth Strout

Número de Páginas: 268

« Comme bien d’autres, je ne l’avais pas vu venir. » Lucy Barton n’a jamais été aussi perdue. Alors que New York se prépare à se confiner, son ex-mari, William, l’a entraînée dans une petite maison sur le littoral, où il va leur falloir composer avec leur passé tortueux pendant de longues semaines d’isolement. L’occasion de prêter main forte à ses filles, dont les mariages subissent le contrecoup de la claustration, et de confronter les souvenirs d’une enfance miséreuse à sa nouvelle situation de romancière en vue. Par touches sensibles, Elizabeth Strout esquisse l’intersection de la vie intime de Lucy Barton et de la grande histoire. Ce roman tout en tendresse, écrit dans le sillage d’Oh William ! (2023), compose un tableau délicat du confinement sur la côte Est des États-Unis et des mystères des liens humains. Traduit de l’anglais (États-Unis) par Pierre Brévignon

Tout est possible

Autor: Elizabeth Strout

Número de Páginas: 248

La petite ville d’Amgash, dans l’Illinois, est en émoi. Lucy Barton, fille de la ville devenue écrivain à succès, exilée à New York depuis de longues années, vient de publier un livre sur sa jeunesse. Le récit de son enfance, pauvre et solitaire, provoque chez les gens d’Amgash des réminiscences, des questions et des révélations. Un jour, Lucy Barton en personne fait irruption à Amgash après dix-sept ans d’absence. Les retrouvailles de Lucy avec les siens sont l’occasion d’instants âpres, mais beaux – comme si la douleur de la fuite et la rancœur s’étaient dissipées en un instant. Dans Tout est possible, Elizabeth Strout renoue avec les personnages de son précédent roman, Je m’appelle Lucy Barton, pour explorer la complexité du lien à l’Autre. Animées par le livre et la visite exutoires de Lucy, des personnes qui l’ont connue se trouvent forcées à dire, ou parviennent enfin à dire, les secrets qui les écrasent depuis longtemps. Une chance offerte de comprendre les choses et les êtres, à défaut de pouvoir tout recommencer. Traduit de l’anglais (États-Unis) par Pierre Brévignon « Ce livre est un joyau... Elizabeth Strout livre...

A Companion to the Works of Elizabeth Strout

Autor: Katherine Montwieler

Número de Páginas: 304

Including an exclusive interview with bestselling American novelist Elizabeth Strout, this groundbreaking study will engage literature scholars and general readers alike. Written in accessible language, this book is the first to offer a sustained analysis of Elizabeth Strout’s work. A recipient of the Pulitzer Prize and the O. Henry Award, among other accolades, Strout has achieved a vast popular following as well. Amy and Isabelle was made into a television movie; Olive Kitteridge, which sold more than one million copies, was adapted as a miniseries; The Burgess Boys has been optioned for HBO; and My Name Is Lucy Barton was reimagined for the stage in London and on Broadway. Oh William!, the sequel to My Name Is Lucy Barton, appeared in 2021, and Strout’s latest book, Lucy by the Sea, is slated for release in fall 2022. At the height of her literary powers as a chronicler of American life and particularly the lives of American women, Strout is currently enjoying both commercial and critical success. Her sales and perennial presence on book club lists indicate a tremendous impact on the popular realm and the growing attention to her in academia charts her importance in...

The Burgess Boys: A Novel By Elizabeth Strout (Trivia-On-Books)

Autor: Trivion Books

Número de Páginas: 75

Tell Me Everything

Autor: Elizabeth Strout

Número de Páginas: 267

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING, BOOKER-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2025 '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...

Luz de febrero

Autor: Elizabeth Strout

Número de Páginas: 231

LA NOVELA MÁS EXITOSA Y ACLAMADA DE LA AUTORA PREMIO PULITZER DE ME LLAMO LUCY BARTON En Crosby, un pequeño pueblo en la costa de Maine, no suceden muchas cosas. Y sin embargo, las historias sobre la vida de las personas que viven allí contienen un mundo entero. Está Olive Kitteridge, una maestra jubilada, irascible, indecorosa, de honestidad inquebrantable. Tiene setenta años y aunque es más dura que una roca, sintoniza con los matices del alma humana. Está Jack Kennison, antiguo profesor de Harvard, que busca desesperadamente la cercanía de esa extraña mujer, Olive, siempre tan Olive. Su relación tiene la fuerza de quienes se aferran a la vida. Una novela conmovedora que habla del amor y la pérdida, de la madurez y la soledad, y de esos inesperados instantes de felicidad. «Qué escritora tan increíble.» Zadie Smith «Tengo una misión: lograr que miles de lectores se rindan como yo ante Elizabeth Strout.» Pablo Giordano «Lo más valioso de Elizabeth Strout es la sutileza con que explora los recovecos de la condición humana.» Fernando Aramburu «Esta mujer que tanto me ha dado llenando mis horas de insomnio.» Elvira Lindo

Olive Kitteridge

Autor: Elizabeth Strout

Número de Páginas: 290

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • The beloved first novel featuring Olive Kitteridge, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of My Name is Lucy Barton and the Oprah’s Book Club pick Olive, Again “Fiction lovers, remember this name: Olive Kitteridge. . . . You’ll never forget her.”—USA Today “Strout animates the ordinary with astonishing force.”—The New Yorker One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century • A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of the Century A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post Book World, USA Today, San Francisco Chronicle, Chicago Tribune, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, People, Entertainment Weekly, The Christian Science Monitor, The Plain Dealer, The Atlantic, Rocky Mountain News, Library Journal At times stern, at other times patient, at times perceptive, at other times in sad denial, Olive Kitteridge, a retired schoolteacher, deplores the changes in her little town of Crosby, Maine, and in the world at large, but she doesn’t always recognize the changes in those around her: a lounge musician haunted by a past romance; a former student who has lost the will to live; Olive’s own adult child, who feels tyrannized...

Oh William!

Autor: Elizabeth Strout

Número de Páginas: 257

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • The Pulitzer Prize–winning 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 they’ve come from—and what they’ve left behind. ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s Fresh Air “Elizabeth 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.”—Ann Patchett, author of The Dutch House I would like to say a few things about my first husband, William. 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. 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—one of those secrets that rearrange everything we think we know about the people closest to us. There are...

Abide with Me

Autor: Elizabeth Strout

Número de Páginas: 350

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Olive Kitteridge and My Name is Lucy Barton comes a “deeply moving” (The Washington Post) novel that “confirms Strout as the possessor of an irresistibly companionable, peculiarly American voice” (The Atlantic Monthly). “Superb . . . a shimmering tale of loss, faith, and human fallibility.”—O: The Oprah Magazine In the late 1950s, in a small New England town, Reverend Tyler Caskey has suffered a terrible loss and finds it hard to be the person he once was. He struggles to find the right words in his sermons and in his conversations with those facing crises of their own, and to bring his five-year-old daughter, Katherine, out of the silence she has observed in the wake of the family’s tragedy. Tyler’s usually patient and kind congregation now questions his leadership and propriety, and accusations are born out of anger and gossip. Then, in Tyler’s darkest hour, a startling discovery will test his parish’s humanity—and his own will to endure the trials that sooner or later test us all.

Lucy by the Sea

Autor: Elizabeth Strout

Número de Páginas: 305

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of My Name is Lucy Barton and Olive Kitteridge comes a “poised and moving” (Vogue) novel about a divorced couple stuck together during lockdown—and the love, loss, despair, and hope that animate us even as the world seems to be falling apart. “Strout’s understanding of the human condition is capacious.”—NPR A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, Oprah Daily, Entertainment Weekly, San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, Time, The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, PopSugar, She Reads With her trademark spare, crystalline prose—a voice infused with “intimate, fragile, desperate humanness” (The Washington Post)—Elizabeth Strout turns her exquisitely tuned eye to the inner workings of the human heart, following the indomitable heroine of My Name Is Lucy Barton through the early days of the pandemic. As a panicked world goes into lockdown, Lucy Barton is uprooted from her life in Manhattan and bundled away to a small town in Maine by her ex-husband and on-again, off-again friend, William. For the next several months, it’s just Lucy, William, and their...

The Burgess Boys

Autor: Elizabeth Strout

Número de Páginas: 354

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Olive Kitteridge and My Name is Lucy Barton comes “a portrait of an American community in turmoil that’s as ambitious as Philip Roth’s American Pastoral but more intimate in tone” (Time). “What truly makes Strout exceptional . . . is the perfect balance she achieves between the tides of story and depths of feeling.”—Chicago Tribune A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, NPR, Good Housekeeping Haunted by the freak accident that killed their father when they were children, Jim and Bob Burgess escaped from their Maine hometown of Shirley Falls for New York City as soon as they possibly could. Jim, a successful corporate lawyer, has belittled his bighearted brother their whole lives, and Bob, a Legal Aid attorney who idolizes Jim, has always taken it in stride. But their long-standing dynamic is upended when their sister, Susan—the Burgess sibling who stayed behind—urgently calls them home, where the long-buried tensions that have shaped and shadowed the brothers’ relationship begin to surface in unexpected ways that will change them forever. This edition includes an original essay by...

Quédate conmigo

Autor: Elizabeth Strout

Número de Páginas: 217

La novela inédita de la autora Premio Pulitzer «Lo más valioso de Elizabeth Strout es la sutileza con que explora los recovecos de la condición humana.» Fernando Aramburu Una magistral novela sobre aquello que nos asombra y fascina de la vida Tyler Caskey es como un soplo de aire fresco para la comunidad de West Annett: es joven, carismático, sus sermones son brillantes y de gran sensibilidad. Sin embargo, en cualquier momento las cosas pueden cambiar, y lo que antes era atractivo puede dar lugar a calumnias y murmuraciones. La repentina muerte de la joven señora Caskey deja abrumado a su marido y a sus hijas. Tyler ya no encuentra las palabras adecuadas en la iglesia, ni compasión alguna para aquellos a los que antes inspiraba. Quédate conmigo nos muestra los distintos matices de las relaciones afectivas, donde cada pérdida cambia una vida, y donde de los lugares más oscuros aflora siempre la esperanza. Han dicho de ella: «Lo más valioso de Elizabeth Strout es la sutileza con que explora los recovecos de la condición humana.» Fernando Aramburu «Esta mujer que tanto me ha dado llenando mis horas de insomnio.» Elvira Lindo «¿Cómo lo hace? ¿Cómo consigue...

My Name Is Lucy Barton

Autor: Elizabeth Strout

Número de Páginas: 241

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE • A simple hospital visit becomes a portal to the tender relationship between mother and daughter in this “spectacular” (The Washington Post) novel by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Olive Kitteridge and The Burgess Boys. “An aching, illuminating look at mother-daughter devotion.”—People A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Time, The Washington Post, The New York Times Book Review, NPR, San Francisco Chronicle, Minneapolis Star Tribune, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Miami Herald, The Guardian Slate, BookPage, LibraryReads, Kirkus Reviews Lucy Barton is recovering slowly from what should have been a simple operation. Her mother, to whom she hasn’t spoken for many years, comes to see her. Gentle gossip about people from Lucy’s childhood in Amgash, Illinois, seems to reconnect them, but just below the surface lie the tension and longing that have informed every aspect of Lucy’s 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,...

The Things We Never Say

Autor: Elizabeth Strout

Número de Páginas: 0

FROM THE PULITZER-WINNING, BOOKER-SHORTLISTED ELIZABETH STROUT COMES A STUNNING STANDALONE NOVEL OF LOVE, LONELINESS AND NEW BEGINNINGS Artie Dam is a man with a secret. He spends his days teaching history to high schoolers, expanding their young minds, correcting their casual cruelties, and lending a kind word to those who need it most. He goes to holiday parties with his wife of three decades, makes small talk with neighbours, and, on weekends, takes his sailboat out on the beautiful Massachusetts Bay. He is, by all appearances, present and alive. But inside, Artie is plagued by feelings of isolation. He looks out at a world gone mad—at himself and the people around him—and turns a question over and over in his mind: how is it that we know so little about one another, even those closest to us? And then, one day, Artie learns that life has been keeping a secret from him, one that threatens to upend his entire world. Once he learns it, he is forced to chart a new course, to reconsider the relationships he holds most dear—and to make peace with the mysteries at the heart of our existence. With exquisite prose and profound insight, Elizabeth Strout captures the way grief...

Amy and Isabelle

Autor: Elizabeth Strout

Número de Páginas: 315

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The debut novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Olive Kitteridge evokes a teenager's alienation from her distant mother, and a parent's rage at the discovery of her daughter's secrets. “One of those rare, invigorating books that take an apparently familiar world and peer into it with ruthless intimacy, revealing a strange and startling place.”—The New York Times Book Review Before there was Olive Kitteridge, there was Amy and Isabelle… In most ways, Isabelle and Amy are like any mother and her 16-year-old daughter, a fierce mix of love and loathing exchanged in their every glance. That they eat, sleep, and work side by side in the gossip-ridden mill town of Shirley Falls—a location fans of Strout will recognize from her critically acclaimed novel, The Burgess Boys—only increases the tension. And just when it appears things can't get any worse, Amy's sexuality begins to unfold, causing a vast and icy rift between mother and daughter that will remain unbridgeable unless Isabelle examines her own secretive and shameful past. A Reader's Guide is included in this powerful first novel by the author who brought Olive Kitteridge to millions of ...

Ploughshares Spring 2010

Autor: Ploughshares

Número de Páginas: 216

Tell Me Everything: Oprah's Book Club

Autor: Elizabeth Strout

Número de Páginas: 353

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • From Pulitzer Prize–winning author Elizabeth Strout comes a “stunner” (People) of a novel about new friendships, old loves, and the very human desire to leave a mark on the world. “Tell Me Everything hits like a bucolic fable. . . . A novel of moods, how they govern our personal lives and public spaces, reflected in Strout’s shimmering technique.”—The Washington Post SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION • A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Time, NPR, Vogue, Parade With her remarkable insight into the human condition and silences that contain multitudes, Elizabeth Strout returns to the town of Crosby, Maine, and to her beloved cast of characters—Lucy Barton, Olive Kitteridge, Bob Burgess, and more—as they deal with a shocking crime in their midst, fall in love and yet choose to be apart, and grapple with the question, as Lucy Barton puts it, “What does anyone’s life mean?” 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...

The Maine Historical and Genealogical Recorder

Autor: Stephen Marion Watson

Número de Páginas: 322