Produced on Broadway by the Manhattan Theater Club, Lynne Meadow, Artistic Director, Barry Grove, Executive Producer and The London Theater Company, in association with Penguin Random House Audio. Title: Lucy by the Sea Author: Elizabeth Strout Edition: 1 Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd ISBN: 9780241606995 Length: 204.0 millimetre Width: 132.0 millimetre Format: HardCover Category: General Fiction Subjects: Modern & Contemporary Fiction Publication Date: Pages: 256 Height: 25.0 millimetre Weight: 500. My Name Is Lucy Barton was originally produced by Nicholas Hytner and Nick Starr for the London Theater Company at the Bridge Theatre in June 2018. Published as the play comes to Broadway after a highly-acclaimed UK run in 2018, this is a unique opportunity to hear Laura Linney's "simply superb" ( The Times UK) performance of this haunting, dramatic monologue. As she begins to find herself as a writer, she is still gripped by the urgent complexities of family life. She hasn't seen her in years, and her visit brings back to Lucy her desperate rural childhood, and her escape to New York. Elizabeth Strout joins these in her latest Lucy Barton novel, Lucy By The Sea, in which Lucy & ex-husband Willia. There is an extremely short list of authors whose pandemic-set work is readable/tolerable. Unsteady after an operation, Lucy Barton wakes to find her mother sitting at the foot of her bed. BOOK REVIEW: Lucy By The Sea by Elizabeth Strout.
Praised as "deeply affecting" and "heartbreaking" by The Guardian (UK), this is a faithful adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Elizabeth Strout's best-selling novel of the same name. My God - she is fun to read.Presenting an original audiobook performance of the stage production of My Name is Lucy Barton, starring Academy Award and Tony nominee Laura Linney. 'Elizabeth Strout restores my faith in the word, in the quality of fiction to shine light on even the dark and still make us feel refreshed and cleansed and glad. 'A novel of shining integrity and humour.' Alice Munro on 'Amy and Isabelle' My Name Is Lucy Barton is a tender expression of the meaning of familial love from one of America's finest writers. Her unexpected visit forces Lucy to confront her past, uncovering long-buried memories of a profoundly impoverished childhood and her present, as the façade of her new life in New York begins to crumble, awakening her to the reality of her faltering marriage and her unsteady journey towards becoming a writer.įrom Lucy's hospital bed, we are drawn ever more deeply into the emotional complexity of family life, the inescapable power of the past, and the memories - however painful - that bind a family together.
An exquisite new novel from the Pulitzer prize-winning author of Olive Kitteridge.Ī mother comes to visit her daughter in hospital after having not seen her in many years.
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