My Name Is Lucy Barton

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Elizabeth Strout: My Name Is Lucy Barton (2016, Penguin Books, Limited)

208 pages

English language

Published April 4, 2016 by Penguin Books, Limited.

ISBN:
978-0-241-24878-2
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4 stars (7 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 and a simple hospital visit becomes a portal to the most tender relationship of all--the one between mother and daughter"--

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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 Γ₯ 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 pΓ₯ en like gripende enkel mΓ₯te, og for en gangs skyld er jeg glad for at det fins en fortsettelse. Jeg er som sagt helt oppslukt.

Subjects

  • Fiction, family life
  • Mothers and daughters, fiction