A new book by Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout is cause for celebration. Her bestselling novels, including Olive Kitteridge and The Burgess Boys, have illuminated our most tender relationships. 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 daugh...
A new book by Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout is cause for celebration. Her bestselling novels, including Olive Kitteridge and The Burgess Boys, have illuminated our most tender relationships. 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.
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.
ELIZABETH STROUT is the author of several novels, including: Abide with Me, a national bestseller and BookSense pick, and Amy and Isabelle, which won the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize, and was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize in England. In 2009 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for he...
ELIZABETH STROUT is the author of several novels, including: Abide with Me, a national bestseller and BookSense pick, and Amy and Isabelle, which won the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize, and was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize in England. In 2009 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her book Olive Kitteridge. Her short stories have been published in a number of magazines, including The New Yorker. She teaches at the Master of Fine Arts program at Queens University of Charlotte.
I have said before: It interests me how we find ways to feel superior to another person, another group of people. It happens everywhere, and all the time. Whatever we call it, I think it's the lowest part of who we are, this need to find someone else to put down. (查看原文)
读完Oh! William再来读这本，明白了Lucy在亲密关系中的纠结源于何处。全书大部分场景都聚焦在Lucy住院期间母亲的看护，也正是这短短的几天，梳理了她与母亲一生缠绕并抗衡的母女关系。童年的贫穷和被抛弃的恐惧甚至到老年还萦绕在Lucy心中，也同时映射在Lucy对自己女儿的依恋上。不善表达的母亲始终无法将那句“I love you too”回馈给Lucy。父母的离世使Lucy的原生家庭离散了，...读完Oh! William再来读这本，明白了Lucy在亲密关系中的纠结源于何处。全书大部分场景都聚焦在Lucy住院期间母亲的看护，也正是这短短的几天，梳理了她与母亲一生缠绕并抗衡的母女关系。童年的贫穷和被抛弃的恐惧甚至到老年还萦绕在Lucy心中，也同时映射在Lucy对自己女儿的依恋上。不善表达的母亲始终无法将那句“I love you too”回馈给Lucy。父母的离世使Lucy的原生家庭离散了，她自己的离异也使她女儿和她有了相似的心境。尽管如此，关系的折断也同时丰盈了Lucy的个体性，她变得更加ruthless，也仍然被柔软打动，就如她最后说的：All life amazes me.(展开)
A really quiet book. And yet, a wealth of palpable emotions, and with power. Last time I read something so deceitfully peaceful was "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro (And then he won the Nobel Prize). And Strout is a Pulitzer winner herself. The la...
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“我会从事写作，让人们不觉得如此孤独。” （And I thought: I will write and people will not feel so alone!） 这是《我叫露西·巴顿》高中的”我“在学校图书馆读书时立下的誓言，而这一想法的萌芽可以追溯到小学三年级。因为家庭的贫困和家人的冷漠，她唯有在图书馆才能...
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1 有用 荆棘海 2022-10-31 17:34:14 北京
读完Oh! William再来读这本，明白了Lucy在亲密关系中的纠结源于何处。全书大部分场景都聚焦在Lucy住院期间母亲的看护，也正是这短短的几天，梳理了她与母亲一生缠绕并抗衡的母女关系。童年的贫穷和被抛弃的恐惧甚至到老年还萦绕在Lucy心中，也同时映射在Lucy对自己女儿的依恋上。不善表达的母亲始终无法将那句“I love you too”回馈给Lucy。父母的离世使Lucy的原生家庭离散了，... 读完Oh! William再来读这本，明白了Lucy在亲密关系中的纠结源于何处。全书大部分场景都聚焦在Lucy住院期间母亲的看护，也正是这短短的几天，梳理了她与母亲一生缠绕并抗衡的母女关系。童年的贫穷和被抛弃的恐惧甚至到老年还萦绕在Lucy心中，也同时映射在Lucy对自己女儿的依恋上。不善表达的母亲始终无法将那句“I love you too”回馈给Lucy。父母的离世使Lucy的原生家庭离散了，她自己的离异也使她女儿和她有了相似的心境。尽管如此，关系的折断也同时丰盈了Lucy的个体性，她变得更加ruthless，也仍然被柔软打动，就如她最后说的：All life amazes me. (展开)
0 有用 樱桃小独角 2023-07-09 02:07:08 美国
讲了一个美国小镇女孩成长的故事，读这个简介的时候，我不是很感兴趣，感觉好像一下子就知道她要写什么，但试读了两页，一下子就被作者的写作风格吸引了。她用词非常简单，但又娓娓道来。作者写的很零碎，很难概括出一个情节，更多的是写一种情绪。可尤为难能可贵的是，字里行间，读不出自怜的语气。这种题材很容易写的凄惨，好像主人公比世上所有人都惨。作者沉溺在情绪里，读者却觉得“就这”？但Strout却写得很克制，没有... 讲了一个美国小镇女孩成长的故事，读这个简介的时候，我不是很感兴趣，感觉好像一下子就知道她要写什么，但试读了两页，一下子就被作者的写作风格吸引了。她用词非常简单，但又娓娓道来。作者写的很零碎，很难概括出一个情节，更多的是写一种情绪。可尤为难能可贵的是，字里行间，读不出自怜的语气。这种题材很容易写的凄惨，好像主人公比世上所有人都惨。作者沉溺在情绪里，读者却觉得“就这”？但Strout却写得很克制，没有过分的抒情，把关注点集中在她周围人和其与之的关系上，是一种高级的深情。 (展开)
1 有用 sophie 2017-09-04 04:01:47
非常敏感，敏感到再多一点点就疑似矫情了。
0 有用 Terri 2023-04-25 04:37:00 北京
看完Olive系列再看这本，之前还读过O, William，总之这个系列目前看的两本都不如Olive，这本尤其破碎，碎碎念。
0 有用 RoutineCat 2022-10-06 13:51:04 福建
细水长流的絮絮叨叨的自述，有点平淡但让人平静，不觉得乏味。每一章大多是两三页的排布也是对这类型写作的助攻。