In july 2016, it was longlisted for the 2016 man booker prize. Miss strout has more than one story to tell, but her stories return to many of the. Lucy barton is recovering slowly from what should have been a simple operation. Lucy barton grows up poor and isolated in rural illinois. Praise for my name is lucy barton there is not a scintilla of sentimentality in this exquisite novel. Now, in my name is lucy barton, this extraordinary writer shows how a simple hospital visit becomes a portal to the most tender relationship of all the one between mother and daughter. While her daughters are still quite young, lucy is taken ill and spends 9 weeks in. My name is lucy barton, by elizabeth strout financial. And elizabeth strouts haunting new novel is, in fact, a kind of bookwithinabook, framed as a memoir or possibly an autobiographical novel. Praise for my name is lucy barton a quiet, sublimely merciful contemporary novel about love, yearning, and resilience in a family damaged beyond words. Lucy recalls that her earliest memories of her parents are.
In elizabeth strouts my name is lucy barton, a simple hospital visit is a portal to the most tender relationship between mother and daughter. The book was also shortlisted for the 2018 international dublin literary award. My name is lucy barton is a 2016 new york times bestselling novel and the fifth novel by the american writer elizabeth strout. My name is lucy barton elizabeth strout thinking in. Lucy lies in a new york city hospital suffering from an undiagnosed illness when her mother unexpectedly arrives from rural illinois, where lucy grew up.
Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Buy my name is lucy barton book online at low prices in india my. My name is lucy barton tells the story of the title character and her relationship with her family, particularly her mother and first husband. But my name is lucy barton is the story of a daughter who loved her mother, and that is a very different story. Now, in my name is lucy barton, this extraordinary writer shows how a simple hospital visit becomes a portal to the most tender relationship of allthe one between mother and daughter. The simple and quiet books are starting to become a favourite of mine. My name is lucy barton 5 four grown children here in new york city this lovely man, i think, felt sorry for me, and saw to it that my girls they were. San francisco chronicle a short novel about love, particularly the complicated love between mothers and daughters, but also simpler, more sudden bonds. My name is lucy barton by elizabeth strout best new fiction. The possible threat to her life brings lucys mother, from whom she has been estranged for years, to her bedsidebut not the father whose world war iirelated trauma is largely responsible for clever lucys fleeing her impoverished family. My name is lucy barton ebook johnson county library.
This is the story of lucy who has to stay in the hospital for nine weeks. Editions of my name is lucy barton by elizabeth strout. Her mother, to whom she hasnt spoken for many years, comes to see her. My name is lucy barton is a title that announces itself with call me ishmael forthrightness. My name is lucy barton by elizabeth strout overdrive. Instead, in its careful words and vibrating silences, my name is lucy barton offers us a rare wealth of emotion, from darkest suffering toi was so happy. It is lucys gentle honesty, complex relationship with her husband, and nuanced response to her mothers shortcomings that make this novel so subtly powerful. Soon to be a broadway play starring laura linney produced by manhattan theatre club and london theatre company lucy herself. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading my name is lucy barton. A new book by pulitzer prize winner elizabeth strout is cause for celebration. Elizabeth strouts my name is lucy barton the new york. 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. Just me, my tea and the beautiful powerful words of this magnificent story. Elizabeth strouts my name is lucy barton is an exploration of memory.
My name is lucy barton weaves a delicate balance the. My name is lucy barton virginia beach public library. It was first published in the united states on january 12, 2016 through random house. In my name is lucy barton, one of americas finest writers shows how a simple hospital visit illuminates the most tender relationship of allthe one between mother and daughter. Alamy in the new novel by elizabeth strout, author of the pulitzerprizewinning olive kitteridge, a woman lies in. My name is lucy barton by elizabeth strout, much raved about by all readers did not turn out to be an enjoyable read for me. My name is lucy barton weaves a delicate balance a hospital visit to an adult daughter by a long estranged mother unwinds a sensitive story of a torn familys imperfect love. Lucy has gone into the hospital to have her appendix removed. Nevertheless, after finishing elizabeth strouts new collection of linked stories, anything is possible, i had to reread her previous book, my name is lucy barton and then i went. My name is lucy barton random house 2016 by the 2009 pulitzer prize winning author elizabeth strout, is a touching and troubling story concerning a young married woman, lucy barton, who lives in new york in the 1980s with her husband and two daughters.
My name is lucy barton is currently playing at the manhattan theatre club in new york the play will be released as an audiobook on 4 feb, read by laura linney unsteady after an operation, lucy barton wakes to find her mother sitting at the foot of her bed. Read my name is lucy barton a novel by elizabeth strout available from rakuten kobo. Her bestselling novels, including olive kitteridge and the burgess boys, have illuminated our most tender relationships. The boston globe it is lucys gentle honesty, complex relationship with her husband, and nuanced response to her mothers shortcomings that make this novel so subtly powerful. The story is told in a series of flashbacks, beginning with lucys time in the hospital when she was younger. They were brought into my room by a family friend, and i saw how their little faces were dirty, and. My name is lucy barton, by elizabeth strout, is written as a fictional memoir of a famous author.
The narrator of strouts powerful and melancholy new novel, my name is lucy barton, might be a distant relation of olives, though she is raised in poverty outside the small town of. My name is lucy barton confirms strout as a powerful storyteller immersed in the nuances of human relationships, weaving family tapestries with compassion, wisdom and insight. My name is lucy barton by elizabeth strout 2016, hardcover. I recently reread it because i read strouts new book, anything is possible and lucy barton reappears in this book. She grew up extremely poor in a dysfunctional midwestern family, but her story is not about material deprivation. My name is lucy barton covers a life story, poverty, abuse, art, marriage, the aids epidemic and subsequent fear, and a.
My name is lucy barton is a short, simple, and quiet story that took me away from the noise and to that quiet place that i love. My name is lucy bartonlike all of strouts fictionis more complex than it first appears, and all the more emotionally persuasive for it. Lucy barton, the narrator of elizabeth strouts new novel, my name is lucy barton, has a story to tell. It is also the work of a more mature writer, scaling new heights. In her spare and mesmerizing novel my name is lucy barton, elizabeth strout elegantly probes the chasm between what is said and what is felt as a daughter and her undemonstrative mother shyly reconnect. My name is lucy barton is a book of deep insight, of delicate feelings, fine writing and elusive events. Having just finished elizabeth strouts latest novel, my name is lucy barton, all i want to do is hide myself away and think about the enormity of her achievement in a. Elizabeth strouts new novel my name is lucy barton vividly evokes the enduring power of the motherdaughter bond. Its a small masterpiece daily mail my name is lucy barton is a short novel about love, particularly the complicated love between mothers and daughters. All is considered life, love, god, and community and all is made new by this writers boundless compassion and graceful prose. I read my name is lucy barton by elizabeth strout in 2016 when it first came out. In her luminous and longawaited second novel, abide with me, bestselling author elizabeth strout welcomes readers back to northern new england in the late 1950s. Summary of my name is lucy barton ebook by instaread. Knitting this powerful narrative together is the brilliant storytelling voice of lucy herself.
My name is lucy barton like all of strout s fictionis more complex than it first appears, and all the more emotionally persuasive for it. My name is lucy barton indian river county library. I recently reread it because i read strouts new book, anything is possible and lucy barton reappears in. I sped right through it, as it is a short book that draws you into the story of lucy, her childhood and adult life. Sarah hampson is a columnist with the globe and mail. Buy my name is lucy barton book online at best prices in india on. To ask other readers questions about my name is lucy barton, please sign up. This is a magnificent book, one that explores much hurt and darkness without ever relinquishing its compassion or. Simplicity and restraint make lucy barton shine elizabeth strouts new novel, about an estranged mother and daughter reconnecting during the daughters illness, is. During this period her mother visits her and stays with her although she refuses to meet the son in law. Very very rarely you come across a book that is so close to perfection that writing about it yourself seems like an act of sacrilege.
My name is lucy barton by elizabeth strout goodreads. My name is lucy barton by elizabeth strout random house, january 12, 2016. Social class, that most discomfiting subject for americans, is at the heart of elizabeth strouts potent new novel, my name is lucy barton random house, which tells. My name is lucy barton by elizabeth strout, paperback. She hasnt seen her in years, and her visit brings back to lucy her desperate rural childhood, and her escape to new york. The book details the complicated relationship between the titular lucy barton and her mother.