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Lucy Barton — the redoubtable memoirist we've met in two previous novels — returns in Elizabeth Strout's Oh William!, reconnecting with her estranged first husband after her second husband dies.
In Elizabeth Strout's new book, a familiar character - Lucy Barton - returns when ex-husband William asks for her help unraveling a recently discovered secret, one that forces him to reevaluate ...
But her slender, tremendously affecting 2016 novel, My Name Is Lucy Barton, is as direct, deceptively straightforward and singularly focused as its title implies.
Lucy Barton — the redoubtable memoirist we've met in two previous novels — returns in Elizabeth Strout's Oh William!, reconnecting with her estranged first husband after her second husband dies.
Elizabeth Strout’s new novel “My Name is Lucy Barton” vividly evokes the enduring power of the mother-daughter bond. Strout appears Wednesday Jan. 20 at Seattle’s Elliott Bay Book Co.
Each of us lives a divided life. Random House, 191 pp., $26. Our public lives are always on display, connecting us to friends, family, strangers, the world. But our interior lives are secret and ...
LUCY BY THE SEA. By Elizabeth Strout. Random House. 288 pages. $28. When Elizabeth Strout’s Lucy Barton got married for the first time, she changed her name. “I did not want to be me anymore ...
It seems Lucy Barton, Elizabeth Strout’s recurring first-person protagonist, has the magic touch with the Booker Prize. My Name is Lucy Barton, the story of Lucy’s improbable rise from poverty ...
Elizabeth Strout’s brilliant fictional memoir, “My Name Is Lucy Barton,” casts a spell over readers, making them believe, after 200 pages of intimate writing, that they truly unde… ...
Laura Linney makes her London stage debut in this adaptation of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Elizabeth Strout's novella 'My Name Is Lucy Barton,' directed by Richard Eyre.
Laura Linney is in love. Just watch the radiant expression on her face as she wraps her arms around the character of Lucy Barton, a role she played in two separate engagements at the Bridge ...