My name is Lucy Barton

a novel

by Elizabeth Strout

193 pages

English language

Published April 3, 2016

ISBN:: 978-0-241-24877-5
OCLC Number:: 936373440

(8 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.

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5 stars

Jeg ble helt oppslukt av denne boken. Har lest at bl. a. Morgenbladet har nevnt Elisabeth Strout som en aktuell nobelpriskandidat, og uten å ha lest henne tenkte jeg at hun ikke passet inn i bildet av finslige litteratur. Men du verden, dette er dyp og gripende litteratur skrevet på en like gripende enkel måte, og for en gangs skyld er jeg glad for at det fins en fortsettelse. Jeg er som sagt helt oppslukt.