“Strout’s prose propels the story forward with moments of startlingly poetic clarity.”
—The New Yorker
Tell Me Everything
A hopeful, healing novel about new friendships, old loves, and the very human desire to leave a mark on the world.
“With extraordinary economy of prose – few writers can pack so much emotion, so much detail into a single paragraph – Strout immerses us in the lives of her characters, each so authentically drawn as to be deserving of an entire novel themselves. ”
With her “extraordinary capacity for radical empathy” (The Boston Globe), remarkable insight into the human condition, and silences that contain multitudes, Elizabeth Strout returns to the town of Crosby, Maine, and to her beloved cast of characters as they deal with a shocking crime in their midst; fall in love and yet choose to be apart; and grapple with the question, as Lucy Barton puts it: What does anyone’s life mean?
Coming AUGUST 13, 2024
Lucy by the Sea
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ● ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR
A POIGNANT, PITCH-PERFECT NOVEL ABOUT A DIVORCED COUPLE STUCK TOGETHER DURING LOCKDOWN — AND THE LOVE, LOSS, DESPAIR, AND HOPE THAT ANIMATE US EVEN AS THE WORLD SEEMS TO BE FALLING APART.
“No novelist working today has Strout’s extraordinary capacity for radical empathy. . . . May droves of readers come to feel enlarged, comforted, and genuinely uplifted by Lucy’s story.”
Elizabeth Strout turns her exquisitely tuned eye to the inner workings of the human heart, following the indomitable heroine of My Name Is Lucy Barton through the early days of the pandemic.
As a panicked world goes into lockdown, Lucy Barton is uprooted from her life in Manhattan and bundled away to a small town in Maine by her ex-husband and on-again, off-again friend, William. For the next several months, it’s just Lucy, William, and their complex past together in a little house nestled against the moody, swirling sea.
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Oh William!
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Elizabeth Strout returns to the world of Lucy Barton in a luminous new novel about love, loss and family secrets.
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. William, she confesses, has always been a mystery to me. Another mystery is why the two have remained connected after all these years. They just are.
So Lucy is both surprised and not surprised when William asks her to join him on a trip to investigate a recently uncovered family secret — one of those secrets that rearrange everything we think we know about the people closest to us.
“The depth, complexity, and love contained in these pages is a miraculous achievement.”
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Olive, Again
Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout continues the life of her beloved Olive Kitteridge, a character who has captured the imaginations of millions of readers.
Prickly, wry, resistant to change yet ruthlessly honest and deeply empathetic, Olive Kitteridge is “a compelling life force” (San Francisco Chronicle). The New Yorker has said that Elizabeth Strout “animates the ordinary with an astonishing force,” and she has never done so more clearly than in these pages, where the iconic Olive struggles to understand not only herself and her own life but the lives of those around her in the town of Crosby, Maine.
“Beautifully written and alive with compassion, at times almost unbearably poignant. A thrilling book in every way.
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Anything Is Possible
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Olive Kitteridge and My Name Is Lucy Barton
An unforgettable cast of small-town characters copes with love and loss in this new work of fiction by #1 bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout.
Recalling Olive Kitteridge in its richness, structure, and complexity, Anything Is Possible explores the whole range of human emotion through the intimate dramas of people struggling to understand themselves and others.
“In her latest work, Strout achieves new levels of masterful storytelling.”
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My Name Is Lucy Barton
#1 New York Times Bestseller
A new book by Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout is cause for celebration. Her bestselling novels, including Olive Kitteridge and The Burgess Boys, have illuminated our most tender relationships.
Now, in My Name Is Lucy Barton, this extraordinary writer shows how a simple hospital visit becomes a portal to the most tender relationship of all—the one between mother and daughter.
“Fiction with the condensed power of poetry: Strout deepens her mastery with each new work, and her psychological acuity has never required improvement.”
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Other works of fiction by Elizabeth
Books
Also from Elizabeth
Edited Collections
The Best American Short Stories 2013
Edited by the best-selling and Pulitzer Prize–winning author Elizabeth Strout, this year’s collection boasts a satisfying “chorus of twenty stories that are by turns playful, ironic, somber, and meditative” (Wall Street Journal). With the masterly Strout picking the best of the best, America’s oldest and best-selling story anthology offers the traditional pleasures of storytelling in voices that are thoroughly contemporary.
Edited and with an introduction by Elizabeth Strout
The Stories of Frederick Busch
A contemporary of Ann Beattie and Tobias Wolff, Frederick Busch was a master craftsman of the form; his subjects were single-event moments in so-called ordinary life. The stories in this volume, selected by Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout, are tales of families trying to heal their wounds, save their marriages, and rescue their children.
Edited and with an introduction by Elizabeth Strout
Photo © Leonard-Cendamo.
“We want to know, I think, what it is like to be another person, because somehow this helps us position our own self in the world. What are we without this curiosity?”