NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Elizabeth Strout “animates the ordinary with an astonishing force,” wrote The New Yorker on the publication of her Pulitzer Prize–winning Olive Kitteridge. The San Francisco Chronicle praised Strout’s “magnificent gift for humanizing characters.” Now the acclaimed author returns with a stunning novel as powerful and moving as any work in contemporary literature.
PRAISE
“The broad social and political range of The Burgess Boys shows just how impressively this extraordinary writer continues to develop.”
—Ron Charles, Washington Post
“[A] gracefully written novel. Grade: A.”
—Entertainment Weekly
“Wincingly funny, moving, wise.”
—Good Housekeeping
“Riveting…”
—More Magazine
“[Strout’s] extraordinary narrative gifts are evident again.”
—Associated Press
Elizabeth Strout’s most recent work, Olive Kitteridge, a novel in stories, won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize, was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and was a New York Times Bestseller. She is the author of two previous novels, Abide With Me, a national bestseller, and Amy and Isabelle, also a New York Times Bestseller.
