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My Name Is Lucy Barton

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My Name Is Lucy Barton

Auteur(s): Elizabeth Strout
Narrateur(s): Kimberly Farr
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A simple hospital visit becomes a portal to the tender relationship between mother and daughter in this extraordinary novel by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Olive Kitteridge and The Burgess Boys.

LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • The New York Times Book Review • NPR • BookPage • LibraryReads • Minneapolis Star Tribune • St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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, deeply human, and truly unforgettable.

Praise for My Name Is Lucy Barton

“A quiet, sublimely merciful contemporary novel about love, yearning, and resilience in a family damaged beyond words.”The Boston Globe

“It is Lucy’s gentle honesty, complex relationship with her husband, and nuanced response to her mother’s shortcomings that make this novel so subtly powerful.”—San Francisco Chronicle

“A short novel about love, particularly the complicated love between mothers and daughters, but also simpler, more sudden bonds . . . It evokes these connections in a style so spare, so pure and so profound the book almost seems to be a kind of scripture or sutra, if a very down-to-earth and unpretentious one.”Newsday

“Spectacular . . . Smart and cagey in every way. It is both a book of withholdings and a book of great openness and wisdom. . . . [Strout] is in supreme and magnificent command of this novel at all times.”—Lily King, The Washington Post

“An aching, illuminating look at mother-daughter devotion.”—People

©2016 Elizabeth Strout (P)2016 Random House Audio
Fiction Fiction de genre Fiction féminine Fiction littéraire Mariage

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"This story of family, poverty, aspirations, and obstacles is immediately gripping, thanks to the combination of Strout's high-quality prose and Kimberly Farr's nearly flawless performance." (AudioFile)

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I love the way Elizabeth Strout writes people. The way she’s able to share the human experience in such a real way. I found myself crying a few times as I could relate to the longing feeling of needing my mother. It was a beautiful book, thank you.

Beautiful!

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I have listened to this book several times. It's the most truthful book I've ever read, nuanced and visual.

My favourite book.

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The author seems to have thought that the horrible relationship with her mother was ok. Hard to listen until the end.

kind of depressing

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Hated this book. Didn’t get attached to any of characters. Poorly written. Not sure if point. Boring

Very boring

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It was recommended to me and all I have to say is.. it's so boring! I keep waiting for her to fill in the blanks and for something to be explained fully, but it never happens. There's no story and just goes on and on of these random thoughts and memories of an uninteresting character. I didn't care about Lucy Barton. The performance of the narrated Kimberly Farr made me want to fall asleep. Don't waste your time.

Just trying to finish it...

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