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Elizabeth Strout is the author of the New York Times bestseller Olive Kitteridge, for which she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize; the national bestseller Abide with Me; and Amy and Isabelle, winner of the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize. She has also been a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize in London. She lives in Maine and New York City.
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"...guarded with others and not wholly trusted by readers, Lucy is open, honest , and thoroughly likeable. As William says to her, “You are a spirit...." Read more
"...I hope other readers find this book to be enlightening ." Read more
"...Simply elegant, whilst being honest and open. A mature and introspective look at the world ... and the world of relationships...." Read more
"...with beautifully explored characters that are multilayered and genuine . The simple, conversational language is perfectly pitched...." Read more
Customers are mixed about the writing style. Some mention the style is almost conversational, and can be read at a leisurely pace. They also appreciate the no excessive use of adjectives and adverbs. However, others say the writing is too studiedly casual and irritating.
"...Ms. Strout writes clearly in Lucy's voice , articulating Lucy's thoughts though I was sometimes annoyed by repetitive phrases...." Read more
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"...book of the four where Lucy is barely included, and for me, it didn’t have enough beauty , grace, warmth or connection to make up for the swampy..." Read more
"Elizabeth Strout's novel reads and feels like a conversation . Lucy Barton talks to us about her first husband, William...." Read more
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"...The plot is simple - a recently-widowed woman tries to help her first husband through some changes that are emotional for him...." Read more
"...like myself who have been divorced, I found this newest creation very heart-warming and true to the character of wonderful Lucy Barton...." Read more
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"...I found the characters confounding , because they're so thinly presented. William seems to use Lucy but not to love her. He seems selfish...." Read more
"...divorced, I found this newest creation very heart-warming and true to the character of wonderful Lucy Barton...." Read more
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"...From the book’s title to its final page, Strout deftly deploys deceptively simple language to bring readers another rich chapter in the life of the..." Read more
"This rambling monologue of a book was a slog to read . All about nothing. An episode of Seinfeld...." Read more
"...And most of all, distinctive. Effortlessly , though I know that effortless seeming writing is the most difficult, Strout carries us on this journey..." Read more
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"...She writes well, but the apologetic stream of consciousness ,..." Read more
"Read the one before this one too. Enjoy her soft wisdom and humanness . Going to read Olive Kitterige for the second time." Read more
"...This could be fine. What is not fine, is that Lucy has no esprit/soul /core… None of these are the right words, but there it is." Read more
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"...This one, though, disappointed me . At about 80% through it, I wondered if I would finish, I did not like Lucy nor care what happened to her...." Read more
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Oh William! (2021) by Elizabeth Strout is the sequel to the Man Booker longlisted and New York Times bestselling novel My Name is Lucy Barton (2016). Strout is also the author of six other books, including the Pulitzer-prize winning Olive Kitteridge (2008).
Oh William! features the previous novel’s first-person protagonist Lucy Barton at a later stage in life when she is 63, a successful writer, and widowed from her second marriage.
While the first novel’s topic was chiefly selfhood, William! centers on the emotional dynamics of marriage and divorce and the effects of history and geography on personal identity.
This study guide references the Viking Print Edition of the novel published in 2021.
Please be advised, this novel includes references to an eating disorder and self-harm.
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In the wake of being widowed from her second marriage to David Abramson, Lucy Barton, a successful 63-year-old writer and mother of two grown-up daughters, is summoned to the aid of her ex-husband William Gerhardt. William, a physically fit 71-year-old parasitology researcher, is beset with problems. One problem is that his third wife Estelle has left him, taking their 10-year-old daughter and much of his furniture. Bewildered, William turns his attention to his other problem: the discovery that his mother, Catherine Cole , had a daughter from her first marriage to a potato-farmer in Maine. Catherine left her first husband to marry William’s father, Wilhelm Gerhardt , a prisoner of war who fought on the German side during WWII.
William invites Lucy on a trip to Maine to meet his lost half-sister, Lois Bubar . Lucy agrees to go because she still cares for William and welcomes the distraction from her grief over David. When they arrive in Maine, William puts off meeting Lois and he and Lucy drive around the desolate landscape where Lois grew up and raised her family. They go to the local library at Houlton where the librarian shows them pictures of William’s father Wilhelm during his POW years. Lucy, who grew up in a tiny house in the middle of an Illinois soybean field, panics at the empty Maine landscape, which reminds her of the isolation of her unhappy and impoverished childhood. Even though she is a successful writer who has lived in New York most of her adult life, the return to a rural setting inspires the same feelings of invisibility and worthlessness that predominated during her years of deprivation. Lucy realizes that while her education and association with William’s family gave her middle-class privileges, her inability to stay in touch with her family of origin caused another form of isolation and depression. She recalls Catherine’s continual insistence that Lucy came from nothing, and that Catherine called her a piece of “trash” on her deathbed. Still, Lucy realizes that William has his own issues with his mother, who he felt rejected him. This has caused him to feel rejected by women, even as he has continually sought their comfort in his three marriages and extramarital affairs.
William is too timid to meet Lois, so he asks Lucy to go in advance. Lucy finds that Lois is both proud and resilient; however, her hurt over Catherine’s abandonment manifests in resentment and the cold treatment she gave Catherine when she sought Lois out. Lois, a close reader of Lucy’s books, was also hurt at being left out of Lucy’s memoir and at the fact that William did not know of her existence until going on an ancestry website. Lois refuses to meet William.
Feeling the sting of Lois’s rejection, William disappears for a few weeks when they return to New York, distracting himself with an unsuitable woman. Meanwhile, Lucy confronts the loss of David and the terrifying childhood feelings the Maine trip brought up. When William asks Lucy to accompany him on a trip to the Cayman Islands, she is bemused. She realizes that William does not have the aura of authority and protection that he once held for her. However, she agrees to accompany him anyway out of compassion.
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THE ROMANTIC , by William Boyd
The Romantics took their time coming. For 10 centuries in the West there was only God, and all art — the beautifully illuminated breviaries, the vast cathedrals — was about him. Then, at last, around 1300 (in Dante, above all), the human face reappeared in the arts, the human as more than servant of king and Christ. What came next seems inevitable only in retrospect: first, the incandescent, revitalizing humanism of the Renaissance, followed by the arguably still more radical scientific and rational advances of the Enlightenment.
This was when the Romantics arrived. They represented a final moral rebellion against the monolithic medieval power of church and state — what actually mattered, they believed, was the individual spirit those institutions had subsumed for so long, the individual’s autonomy and passion, the authenticity of subjective emotions. As Goethe, perhaps the greatest artist the movement produced, famously wrote: “Feeling is all.”
Cashel Greville Ross, the protagonist of William Boyd’s new novel, “The Romantic,” is one of their number (as the title helpfully indicates). He’s another of Boyd’s marvelous “whole life” creations , a fictional character traced from birth to death: Born in 1799, he becomes, in these packed pages, a soldier, a writer, a jailbird, a farmer, an explorer in Africa, a pallbearer for Percy Bysshe Shelley, a friend to Byron, a diplomat in Italy and more, restlessly traversing the globe in search of a lasting identity.
Boyd spins these adventures into an absorbing tale. Of course, as the study of history has advanced beyond the simplicity of grand narratives, it’s become clear that Romanticism was a set of ideals available mostly to rich, white men: an assertion of total individual freedom based precisely on the lack of freedom of huge parts of society. Boyd, born in Africa to Scottish parents, educated (alongside King Charles) at Gordonstoun, and in more recent times the owner of a tony vineyard in France, seems indifferent to that conundrum in this story. For a reader willing to accept that lack of nuance, though, “The Romantic” is a panoramic, transporting yarn.
Cashel Greville (the Ross is added later, after some questions of bastardy are resolved) grows up in County Cork, Ireland. He is raised by his aunt, a governess who tutors him as well as the twin girls on the large estate where she works, and armed with this education Cashel proves clever, handsome and game. At just 15 he fibs his way into the army, and soon sees action at the Battle of Waterloo. For the remainder of his life this becomes his golden ticket: “The great revelation — Waterloo,” Boyd writes when Cashel starts meeting the Romantic poets in Italy. “Even Mr. Shelley stared at him respectfully with his big restless eyes.”
At this stage Cashel is writing a travelogue, which will eventually earn him a minor but significant reputation as a writer. When his publisher vanishes without paying him, though, he’s sent to Marshalsea debtors’ prison, the appalling place that Dickens wrote about so forcefully and eloquently. (Here and throughout the book, Boyd is superb at integrating period detail, excellent on the historical novelist’s thorny tasks of money, hygiene and travel — a pro’s pro.)
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Local fiction: stellar entries in two bestselling series have more in common than meets the eye..
By Carole E. Barrowman
Special to the Star Tribune
On first glance it might seem that Minnesota authors William Kent Krueger and Mindy Mejia’s latest novels have little in common.
Krueger’s “Spirit Crossing” is a stellar example of eco-literature, where place transcends plot to explore social and environmental themes. On the other hand, Mejia’s “A World of Hurt” is muscular Midwest noir: cynical, violent, existential. But take a second glance. Both novels have complex characters struggling with tough emotional dilemmas, both tell really good stories and, if you ask me, this makes both the best of the best.
“Spirit Crossing” is the 20th book (hip! hip!) in Krueger’s beloved Cork O’Connor series. Cork’s mantra has always been that “if you pull one thread” in an investigation, “it sometimes loosens others.”
The first thread unravels on its own. While searching for a good blueberry patch, Cork’s grandson, Waaboo, has a vision. Like others in his Ojibwe family, Waaboo can see spirits. His vision leads to a buried body beneath the berries. Working together, Cork and his son-in-law, Daniel, tug some more. Eventually, their investigation untangles the knotted strands of a missing white girl and a missing Ojibwe girl, and the terrible reality that missing white girls get the headlines more than the hundreds of missing indigenous ones.
The place of the title, Spirit Crossing, is “contested land,” the site where the Iron Lake Ojibwe have been fighting to secure their “rightful dominion” for decades. Now, it’s a place of protest as they fight to prevent an oil pipeline from destroying the land.
Spirit Crossing also is the “path of souls,” where spirits move toward the divine. But, for me — despite the presence of Henry Meloux, an Ojibwe Mide healer and the family’s spiritual adviser — Annie, Cork’s queer daughter, is the emotional heart of this novel. Annie has returned to Gooseberry Lane to celebrate her brother Stephen’s marriage, carrying baggage that threads beautifully through the story.
Mejia’s latest thriller , “ A World of Hurt” sees alienated Iowa police detective Max Summerlin and DEA informant and ex-drug-trafficker Kara Johnson elbow deep in it. Again. This novel opens a year after the events in Mejia’s addictive “To Catch A Storm,” where they brought down a massive drug cartel operating throughout the Midwest. This time, it’s way personal. Celina, Kara’s girlfriend, her “air,” her “reason,” was killed in the bust. Kara’s out to protect her lover’s legacy.
Kara has unsuccessfully tried to “fill the empty spaces” after Celina’s death “with drinking, with drawing, with vengeance.” Not working. With promises of a clean(ish) slate if she becomes the “bait to trap the enforcer” taking out loose ends from the drug bust, Kara lets the chaos back into her life.
Set mostly in northeastern Iowa, the novel jumps between Kara’s point of view and Max’s. I was all in for Kara’s. She’s one of the most intriguing, broken, bad-ass characters I’ve read recently.
She drives the novel’s crazy-intense plot with her questionable choices and queer-focused, feminist point of view: She calls out the male gaze when she sees it. She scoffs at men “spouting credentials like they were whipping them out to measure.” She doesn’t know “where the boundary is between healthy and hurt, between living and dying.”
That’s another thing the books have in common. Cork O’Connor may be “bent by the weight of too many years filled with too many worries,” and Kara Johnson may be “long past [her] expiration date,” but I hope both will be back.
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I never laughed as much in my life at any books. Then or now. Strange that I loved them so much – for William's life was so different from mine. He was living in the posh suburbs somewhere in the south, and I was in a council house in Carlisle. Yet his anti-adult stance, his japes and scrapes and his awful spelling had me in hysterics.
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His first book, about a canoe trip with a friend on the Belgium-France borders. Potty really, it was a just an excuse for an adventure. Nothing much happens, but it's ever so charming. Robert Louis Stevenson is the writer I would most liked to have met in the flesh – always ill, but always on the move.
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One of seven books in his "Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells". He produced them his way – with his drawings, his hand-writing. They are works of art as well as being vital for any Lakeland lover.
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I encouraged her to write and publish this book, her first at the age of 77. I was just so amazed by her life story – working as a model in Chelsea in the 1960s, crossing the Atlantic in a home-made trimaran with her husband in the 1970s. But mostly because she is such a talented, touching, revealing writer.
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OK, she is my daughter but it is such an excellent idea: the fictionalised life of a real 19th century working-class woman who was a diver and swimmer. These modern Olympic swimmers, eh, they have it easy. Daisy had it hard. Ever so touching.
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“A Native American rejoinder to Richard White and Jesse Amble White ’s California Exposures . ”— Kirkus Reviews Rewriting the history of California as Indigenous. Before there was such a thing as “California,” there were the People and the Land. Manifest Destiny, the Gold Rush, and settler colonial society drew maps, displaced Indigenous People, and reshaped the land, but they did not make California. Rather, the lives and legacies of the people native to the land shaped the creation of California. We Are the Land is the first and most comprehensive text of its kind, centering the long history of California around the lives and legacies of the Indigenous people who shaped it. Beginning with the ethnogenesis of California Indians, We Are the Land recounts the centrality of the Native presence from before European colonization through statehood—paying particularly close attention to the persistence and activism of California Indians in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The book deftly contextualizes the first encounters with Europeans, Spanish missions, Mexican secularization, the devastation of the Gold Rush and statehood, genocide, efforts to reclaim land, and the organization and activism for sovereignty that built today’s casino economy. A text designed to fill the glaring need for an accessible overview of California Indian history, We Are the Land will be a core resource in a variety of classroom settings, as well as for casual readers and policymakers interested in a history that centers the native experience.
William J. Bauer, Jr. is an enrolled citizen of the Round Valley Indian Tribes and Professor of History at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
Damon B. Akins is Professor of History at Guilford College, in Greensboro, North Carolina, and a former high school teacher in Los Angeles.
"A Native American rejoinder to Richard White and Jesse Amble White’s California Exposures. . . . [And] a welcome contribution to Native studies and the rich literature of California’s first peoples. " — Kirkus Reviews
"In what seems an overdue departure from standard histories, Akins and Bauer’s comprehensive account places indigenous people at the heart of California’s story." — Boston Globe
" We Are the Land is an astonishing work of scholarship, storytelling, and solidarity. . . . It will set the standard for the many other stories of the People waiting to be told." — Sierra Magazine
"Combines lyrical storytelling with academic narration to foreground Indigenous oral stories. . . . The book’s well-researched micro-histories coalesce to create a necessary rewriting of Californian history." — Civil Eats
"Akins and Bauer have written a classic. . . . A relocation of the region’s indigenous peoples from a history based on their erasure to a history based on their preeminence." — CounterPunch
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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.
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Oh William! is a novel by American writer Elizabeth Strout, published on October 19, 2021, by Random House. The novel focusses on a now successful, middle-age writer, Lucy Barton, whose earlier life was at the center of Strout's novels My Name Is Lucy Barton (2016) and Anything Is Possible (2017). It deals in particular with her relationship to ...
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About Oh William! NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Olive Kitteridge and My Name is Lucy Barton explores the mysteries of marriage and the secrets we keep, as a former couple reckons with where they've come from—and what they've left behind. ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air"Elizabeth ...
Strout's latest novel, 'Oh, William!,' her third about the successful and heavily burdened Lucy Barton, is somehow both exclamatory and plainspoken.
When William explains that what attracted him to Lucy was her sense of joy, the reader can only agree. This brilliant, compelling, tender novel is—quite simply—a joy. Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout has an overall rating of Rave based on 33 book reviews.
Book review: Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout is a delightful and emotionally honest read Elizabeth Strout's 2021 novel Oh William! has been shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize.
I will post reviews of two relatively recent books ("Oh William !" and "Lucy by the Sea" ) ahead of her most recent book ("Tell Me Everything") which is due for publication in September 2024. Many of her books are based in small towns in the US North-East with occasional scenes in bigger cities, notably New York City.
Book Summary. Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout explores the mysteries of marriage and the secrets we keep, as a former couple reckons with where they've come from - and what they've left behind. I would like to say a few things about my first husband, William. Lucy Barton is a writer, but her ex-husband, William, remains a hard man to read.
Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout is the third book in Elizabeth's Strout's Amgash Series but can be read as a stand-alone, however, it's really best to read the series in order. The book is written all in first person POV by Lucy is an author and the book is like a conversation with Lucy about her life, and especially about her ex-husband ...
Elizabeth Strout's third Lucy Barton novel beautifully teases out the complex ties within an extended family stretching from hardscrabble Maine to affluent New York, writes Allan Massie
Chronologically, "Oh William!" picks up where Strout's 2017 book, "Anything Is Possible" — an interconnected series of stories set in Lucy's hometown in Illinois — leaves off. But rather than continue to focus on Amgash's myriad townsfolk, Strout turns her radar once again on Lucy and her immediate family.
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Oh William! is a quiet, character-driven novel. Strout writes with such an understated elegance, and Lucy's melancholy voice tugs at your heartstrings during even the most seemingly innocuous moments ... What continues to astound me most about this novel, however, is Strout's depiction of Lucy's perspective ...
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"The colonial assault on California's Native communities has come in many toxic forms, including the many bad history books that have painted Indigenous Peoples as doomed and now vanished. With We Are the Land, Damon Akins and William Bauer offer a powerful tonic.