“Don’t make the mistake of blurring the line between fiction and truth, a novelist named Sarah Payne warns in Elizabeth Strout’s latest book, “My Name Is Lucy Barton.”
. . . She’s speaking to her own fictional audience, and possibly to us, too. But who knows which voice reflects whose view in the deceptively simple but many-layered world of “Lucy Barton”? ”
“Ms. Strout’s allies herself less with recent autobiographical fictions than with Ernest Hemingway…. His influence is present here in her combination of candor and indirection and in the economy and simplicity of the language that conveys a sense of childlike vulnerability.”
“Oscar winner Robert Redford has signed a two-year, first-look television deal with HBO. The first project put into development under the pact is The Burgess Boys, a miniseries based on the novel by Elizabeth Strout.”
