(0)Elizabeth Strout
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Amgash novels volume 4
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English
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"With her trademark spare, crystalline prose-a voice infused with "intimate, fragile, desperate humanness" (The Washington Post)-Elizabeth Strout once again turns her exquisitely-tuned eye to the inner workings of the human heart, this time following the indomitable heroine of My Name Is Lucy Barton and Oh William! through the early days of the pandemic. As a panicked world goes into lockdown, Lucy Barton is uprooted from her life in Manhattan and...
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Amgash novels volume 1
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English
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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...
3) Olive, again
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"Olive Kitteridge has returned, as indomitable as ever, this time as a person getting older, navigating her next decade as she comes to terms with the changes--sometimes welcome, sometimes not--in her own life. Here is Olive, strangely content in her second marriage, still in an evolving relationship with her son and his family, encountering a cast of memorable characters in the seaside town of Crosby, Maine. Whether it's a young girl coming to terms...
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “What truly makes Strout exceptional . . . is the perfect balance she achieves between the tides of story and depths of feeling.”—Chicago Tribune
This edition includes an original essay by Elizabeth Strout about the origins of The Burgess Boys.
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • NPR • Good...
This edition includes an original essay by Elizabeth Strout about the origins of The Burgess Boys.
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • NPR • Good...
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Amgash novels volume 3
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English
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Lucy Barton is a writer, but her ex-husband is a hard man to read. She is surprised and not surprised when he asks her to join him on a trip to investigate a recently uncovered family secret.
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Amgash novels volume 2
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English
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A collection of stories tell of two sisters: one trades self-respect for a wealthy husband while the other finds in the pages of a book a kindred spirit who changes her life. The janitor at the local school has his faith tested in an encounter with an isolated man he has come to help; a grown daughter longs for mother love even as she comes to accept her mother's happiness in a foreign country; and the adult Lucy Barton returns to visit her siblings...
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Before there was Olive Kitteridge, there was Amy and Isabelle…
“A novel of shining integrity and humor, about the bravery and hard choices of what is called ordinary life.”—Alice Munro
Pulitzer Prize winning author Elizabeth Strout’s bestselling and award winning debut, Amy and Isabelle—adapted for television by Oprah Winfrey— evokes a teenager's alienation...
“A novel of shining integrity and humor, about the bravery and hard choices of what is called ordinary life.”—Alice Munro
Pulitzer Prize winning author Elizabeth Strout’s bestselling and award winning debut, Amy and Isabelle—adapted for television by Oprah Winfrey— evokes a teenager's alienation...
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English
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the Pulitzer Prize–winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Olive Kitteridge comes a “superb” (O: The Oprah Magazine) novel that “confirms Strout as the possessor of an irresistibly companionable, peculiarly American voice.” (The Atlantic Monthly)
In the late 1950s, in a small New England town, Reverend Tyler...
In the late 1950s, in a small New England town, Reverend Tyler...
10) Quédate conmigo
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Duomo ediciones
Pub. Date
2022
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Español
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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,
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Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial España
Pub. Date
2022
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Español
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Elizabeth Strout, ganadora del Premio Pulitzer y el Premi Llibreter, con tres millones y medio de lectores, recupera a su icónica protagonista, Lucy Barton, en un libro del que no se sale, hermoso, doloroso y profundo como las historias de Lucia Berlin o Alice Munro
Uno de los mejores libros del año según Babelia, El Cultural, The Times, GQ, Esquire, Elle y
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Duomo ediciones
Pub. Date
2016
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Español
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En una habitación de hospital en pleno centro de Manhattan, delante del iluminado edifi cio Chrysler, cuyo perfil se recorta al otro lado de la ventana, dos mujeres hablan sin descanso durante cinco días y cinco noches. Hace muchos años que no se ven, pero el flujo de su conversación parece capaz de detener el tiempo y silenciar el ruido ensordecedor de todo lo que no se dice. En esa habitación de hospital, durante cinco días y cinco noches,...
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"As our vision becomes more global, our storytelling is stretching in many ways. Stories increasingly change point of view, switch location, and sometimes pack as much material as a short novel might," writes guest editor Elizabeth Strout. "It's the variety of voices that most indicates the increasing confluence of cultures involved in making us who we are." The Best American Short Stories 2013 presents an impressive diversity of writers who dexterously...
16) Luz de febrero
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Duomo ediciones
Pub. Date
2021
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Español
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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
...17) Olive Kitteridge
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Home Box Office, Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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The four-part drama that tells the story of a seemingly placid New England town that is actually wrought with illicit affairs, crime and tragedy, all told through the lens of Olive, whose wicked wit and harsh demeanor mask a warm but troubled heart and staunch moral center. The story spans 25 years and focuses on Olive's relationships with her husband, Henry, the good-hearted and kindly town pharmacist; their son, Christopher, who resents his mother's...
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One of the Middle East's most celebrated writers, Rabih Alameddine, discusses his novel An Unnecessary Woman, an intimate and moving portrait of a reclusive book-loving 72-year-old Lebanese woman who views her complicated past through the lens of her favorite works of literature. In conversation with Elizabeth Strout (Olive Kitteridge). Mia Dillon will read an excerpt.
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Amazon.com
Pub. Date
c2016
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English
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Have you ever wished you could have a curated reading list with a bunch of titles you've always wanted, but packaged so as to avoid breaking your back carting around (and keeping track of) a huge stack of books? We've got a Kindle for just such an occasion. Our Reading Becomes Electric program lets you check out an eReader loaded with a variety of titles to explore and take with you wherever you go. Check one out for up to three weeks and discover...
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Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2020
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English
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The American Civil Liberties Union partners with award-winning authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman in this "forceful, beautifully written" (Associated Press) collection that brings together many of our greatest living writers, each contributing an original piece inspired by a historic ACLU case.
On January 19, 1920, a small group of idealists and visionaries, including Helen Keller, Jane Addams, Roger Baldwin, and Crystal Eastman,...
On January 19, 1920, a small group of idealists and visionaries, including Helen Keller, Jane Addams, Roger Baldwin, and Crystal Eastman,...