My name is Lucy Barton : a novel / Elizabeth Strout.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781400067695 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 1400067693 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 9780812979527 (paperback)
- ISBN: 0812979524 (paperback)
- Physical Description: 193 pages ; 22 cm
- Publisher: New York : Random House, [2016]
Content descriptions
Summary, etc.: | 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. |
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Subject: | Mothers and daughters > Fiction. |
Genre: | Domestic fiction. |
Available copies
- 71 of 72 copies available at Bibliomation. (Show)
- 0 of 1 copy available at Southbury Public Library.
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- 0 current holds with 72 total copies.
Other Formats and Editions
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Southbury Public Library | STROUT (Text) | 34019134466721 | Adult Fiction | Checked out | 03/08/2024 |
Electronic resources
Author Notes
My Name Is Lucy Barton
Elizabeth Strout (born January 6, 1956) is an American author of fiction. She was born in Portland, Maine. After graduating from Bates College, she spent a year in Oxford, England. In 1982 she graduated with honors, and received both a law degree from the Syracuse University College of Law and a Certificate of Gerontology from the Syracuse School of Social Work. Strout wrote Amy and Isabelle over the course of six or seven years, which when published was shortlisted for the 2000 Orange Prize and nominated for the 2000 PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction. Amy and Isabelle was made into a television movie starring Elisabeth Shue and was produced by Oprah Winfrey's studio, Harpo Films. Strout was a NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities) professor at Colgate University during the Fall Semester of 2007, where she taught creative writing. She was also on the faculty of the MFA program at Queens University of Charlotte in Charlotte, North Carolina. In 2009 Strout was honored with a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for Olive Kitteridge, a collection of connected short stories she wrote about a woman and her immediate family who lived on the coast of Maine. Strout also wrote The Burgess Boys in 2013 which made The New York Times Best Seller List. Ms. Strout's title, My name is Lucy Barton, made the New York Times Best Seller List in 2016. Her newest title, Anything is Possible (2017), won the 2018 Story Prize. (Bowker Author Biography)