Elizabeth Strout

"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...

"Shows how a simple hospital visit becomes a portal to the most tender relationship of all--the one between mother and daughter. 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...

"Lucy Barton is a writer, but her ex-husband, William, remains a hard man to read. 'William,' she confesses, 'has always been a mystery to me.' Another mystery is why the two have remained connected after all these years. They just are. So Lucy is both surprised and not surprised when William asks her to join him on a trip to investigate a recently uncovered family secret - one of those secrets that rearrange everything we think we know about the...

"Anything Is Possible explores the whole range of human emotion through the intimate dramas of people struggling to understand themselves and others. Here are 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...

"With her "extraordinary capacity for radical empathy" (The Boston Globe), remarkable insight into the human condition, and silences that contain multitudes, Elizabeth Strout returns to the town of Crosby, Maine, and to her beloved cast of characters as they deal with a shocking crime in their midst; fall in love and yet choose to be apart; and grapple with the question, as Lucy Barton puts it: What does anyone's life mean? It's autumn in Maine, and...

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • The beloved first novel featuring Olive Kitteridge, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of My Name is Lucy Barton and the Oprah’s Book Club pick Olive, Again

“Fiction lovers, remember this name: Olive Kitteridge. . . . You’ll never forget her.”—USA Today

“Strout animates the ordinary...

ROMANCE VENCEDOR DO PULITZER PRIZE A obra mais importante e comovente de Elizabeth Strout, autora premiada de O meu nome é Lucy Barton e Tudo é possível Em Crosby, uma pacata povoação costeira no Maine, todos conhecem Olive Kitteridge, a temível professora de Matemática do liceu, agora reformada, e Henry, o seu marido, farmacêutico gentil. E talvez não haja ninguém que conheça tão bem quanto Olive os segredos e os dramas dos habitantes...

«Pisatelʹnit͡sa Li͡usi Barton davno v razvode so svoim pervym muzhem Vilʹi͡amom, s kotorym prozhila v brake mnogo let i vyrastila dvukh dochereĭ. No kogda u Li͡usi umiraet vtoroĭ muzh, a Vilʹi͡ama brosaet zhena, oni ishchut podderzhki drug u druga i vmeste otpravli͡ai͡utsi͡a v Mėn na poiski sestry Vilʹi͡ama, o sushchestvovanii kotoroĭ on do nedavnikh por ne podozreval. Sobytii͡a nastoi͡ashchego perepletai͡utsi͡a v rasskaze Li͡usi...

"The uncannily relevant, deliciously clear-eyed collected stories of a critically acclaimed, award-winning "American literary treasure" (Boston Globe), ripe for rediscovery--with a foreword by Elizabeth Strout. From her many well-loved novels, Hilma Wolitzer--now 90 years old and at the top of her game--has gained a reputation as one of our best fiction writers, who "raises ordinary people and everyday occurrences to a new height." (Washington Post)...