Elizabeth Strout is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Olive Kitteridge, winner of the Pulitzer Prize; Olive, Again, an Oprah’s Book Club pick; Anything Is Possible, winner of the Story Prize; My Name is Lucy Barton, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize; The Burgess Boys, named one of the best books of the year by The Washington Post and NPR; Abide with Me, a national bestseller; and Amy and Isabelle, winner of the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize. She has also been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the International Dublin Literary Award, and the Orange Prize. Her short stories have been published in a number of magazines, including The New Yorker and O: The Oprah Magazine. Elizabeth Strout lives in New York City.
“Strout’s prose propels the story forward with moments of
startlingly poetic clarity.”—The New Yorker
“Elizabeth Strout’s first two books, Abide with Me and Amy and
Isabelle, were highly thought of, and her third, Olive Kitteridge,
won the Pulitzer Prize in fiction. But The Burgess Boys, her most
recent novel, is her best yet.”—The Boston Globe
“Strout’s greatest gift as a writer, outside a diamond-sharp
precision that packs 320 fast-paced pages full of insight, is her
ability to let the reader in on all the rancor of her characters
without making any of them truly detestable. . . . Strout creates a
portrait of an American community in turmoil that’s as ambitious as
Philip Roth’s American Pastoral but more intimate in
tone.”—Time
“[Strout’s] extraordinary narrative gifts are evident again. . . .
At times [The Burgess Boys is] almost effortlessly fluid, with
superbly rendered dialogue, sudden and unexpected bolts of humor
and . . . startling riffs of gripping emotion.”—Associated
Press
“[Strout] is at her masterful best when conjuring the two Burgess
boys. . . . Scenes between them ring so true.”—San Francisco
Chronicle
“No one should be surprised by the poignancy and emotional vigor of
Elizabeth Strout’s new novel. But the broad social and political
range of The Burgess Boys shows just how impressively this
extraordinary writer continues to develop.”—The Washington Post
“Strout deftly exposes the tensions that fester among families. But
she also takes a broader view, probing cultural divides. . . .
Illustrating the power of roots, Strout assures us we can go home
again—though we may not want to.”—O: The Oprah Magazine
“Reading an Elizabeth Strout novel is like peering into your
neighbor’s windows. . . . There is a nuanced tension in the novel,
evoked by beautiful and detailed writing. Strout’s manifestations
of envy, pride, guilt, selflessness, bigotry and love are subtle
and spot-on.”—Minneapolis Star Tribune
“Strout conveys what it feels like to be an outsider very well,
whether she’s delving into the quiet inner lives of Somalis in
Shirley Falls or showing how the Burgess kids got so alienated from
one another. But the details are so keenly observed, you can
connect with the characters despite their apparent isolation. . . .
[A] gracefully written novel. [Grade:] A.”—Entertainment Weekly
“Wincingly funny, moving, wise.”—Good Housekeeping
“With her signature lack of sentimentality, a boatload of
clear-eyed compassion and a penetrating prose style that makes the
novel riveting, Strout tells the story of one Maine family,
transformed. Again and again, she identifies precisely the most
complex of filial emotions while illuminating our relationships to
the larger families we all belong to: a region, a city, America and
the world.”—More
“The Burgess Boys returns to coastal Maine [with] a grand unifying
plot, all twists and damage and dark, morally complex revelations.
. . . The grand scale suits Strout, who now adds impresario
storytelling at book length to the Down East gift for plainspoken
wisdom.”—Town & Country
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