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My Name Is Lucy Barton de Elizabeth Strout

My Name Is Lucy Barton

Autor Elizabeth Strout
en Limba Engleză Paperback – oct 2016

Găsim în proza lui Elizabeth Strout o limba de o claritate aproape chirurgicală, unde tăcerile dintre cuvinte poartă la fel de multă greutate ca textul propriu-zis. În My Name Is Lucy Barton, stilul este voit esențializat, o formă de asceză literară care reușește să captureze complexitatea legăturilor de sânge fără a recurge la artificii sentimentale. Credem că forța acestui roman rezidă tocmai în simplitatea premisei: o femeie aflată în convalescență după o operație banală primește vizita mamei sale, pe care nu a mai văzut-o de ani de zile. Dialogul lor, construit din bârfe inofensive despre vecinii din orășelul Amgash, devine un paravan pentru traume nespuse și o dorință acută de reconciliere. În tradiția volumului Anything is Possible, acest roman reimaginează viața rurală americană nu prin idilism, ci prin prisma izolării și a luptei de a depăși condiția unei copilării marcate de sărăcie lucie. Putem afirma că Elizabeth Strout rafinează aici temele suferinței tăcute explorate anterior în Abide With Me, mutând însă accentul de pe datoria religioasă pe auto-descoperirea prin scris și maternitate. Spre deosebire de structura fragmentată din Olive Kitteridge, aici vocea lui Lucy este cea care sudează întreaga narațiune, oferind o perspectivă subiectivă, dar onestă, asupra memoriei. Este un roman al nuanțelor, unde ritmul este dictat de fluxul gândurilor protagonistei, transformând o vizită la spital într-o meditație profundă despre reziliență și iertare.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780812979527
ISBN-10: 0812979524
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 130 x 201 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.21 kg
Editura: Random House LLC US
Colecția Random House Trade Paperbacks

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Recomandăm acest roman cititorilor care apreciază literatura psihologică fină și personajele construite cu empatie. Veți descoperi o poveste despre puterea de a te desprinde de un trecut dureros fără a-ți nega rădăcinile. Este o lectură esențială pentru a înțelege universul literar al lui Elizabeth Strout, oferind o perspectivă intimă asupra relației mamă-fiică ce va rezona mult timp după închiderea cărții.

Despre autor

Elizabeth Strout este o scriitoare americană de renume internațional, celebrată pentru capacitatea sa de a sonda adâncimile psihologice ale personajelor din comunități mici. Născută în Maine, ea a transpus atmosfera Americii profunde în operele sale, obținând Premiul Pulitzer în 2009 pentru Olive Kitteridge. Succesul său a continuat cu The Burgess Boys și seria dedicată lui Lucy Barton, devenind o prezență constantă în listele de bestseller New York Times. Opera sa este marcată de un realism lucid și de o înțelegere profundă a fragilității umane, fiind adaptată pentru televiziune și teatru.

Descriere scurtă

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A simple hospital visit becomes a portal to the tender relationship between mother and daughter in this extraordinary novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Olive Kitteridge and The Burgess Boys. Soon to be a Broadway play starring Laura Linney produced by Manhattan Theatre Club and London Theatre Company - LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE - NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post - The New York Times Book Review - NPR - BookPage - LibraryReads - Minneapolis Star Tribune - St. Louis Post-Dispatch Lucy Barton is recovering slowly from what should have been a simple operation. Her mother, to whom she hasn't spoken for many years, comes to see her. Gentle gossip about people from Lucy's childhood in Amgash, Illinois, seems to reconnect them, but just below the surface lie the tension and longing that have informed every aspect of Lucy's life: her escape from her troubled family, her desire to become a writer, her marriage, her love for her two daughters. Knitting this powerful narrative together is the brilliant storytelling voice of Lucy herself: keenly observant, deeply human, and truly unforgettable. Praise for My Name Is Lucy Barton "A quiet, sublimely merciful contemporary novel about love, yearning, and resilience in a family damaged beyond words."--The Boston Globe"It is Lucy's gentle honesty, complex relationship with her husband, and nuanced response to her mother's shortcomings that make this novel so subtly powerful."--San Francisco Chronicle "A short novel about love, particularly the complicated love between mothers and daughters, but also simpler, more sudden bonds . . . It evokes these connections in a style so spare, so pure and so profound the book almost seems to be a kind of scripture or sutra, if a very down-to-earth and unpretentious one."--Newsday "Spectacular . . . Smart and cagey in every way. It is both a book of withholdings and a book of great openness and wisdom. . . . [Strout] is in supreme and magnificent command of this novel at all times."--Lily King, The Washington Post "An aching, illuminating look at mother-daughter devotion."--People

Recenzii

A heart-wrenching story of mothers and daughters from the Pulitzer prize-winning author of Olive Kitteridge
I am deeply impressed. Writing of this quality comes from a commitment to listening, from a perfect attunement to the human condition, from an attention to reality so exact that it goes beyond a skill and becomes a virtue. I have never read her before and I knew within a few sentences that here was an artist to value and respect
Strout's best novel yet
An exquisite novel... in its careful words and vibrating silences, My Name Is Lucy Barton offers us a rare wealth of emotion, from darkest suffering to - 'I was so happy. Oh, I was happy' - simple joy
So good I got goosebumps... a masterly novel of family ties by one of America's finest writers
My Name is Lucy Barton confirms Strout as a powerful storyteller immersed in the nuances of human relationships... Deeply affecting novel...visceral and heartbreaking...If she hadn't already won the Pulitzer for Olive Kitteridge this new novel would surely be a contender
Hypnotic...yielding a glut of profoundly human truths to do with flight, memory and longing
This is a book you'll want to return to again and again and again
Slim and spectacular...My Name Is Lucy Barton is smart and cagey in every way. It starts with the clean, solid structure and narrative distance of a fairy tale yet becomes more intimate and improvisational, coming close at times to the rawness of autofiction by writers such as Karl Ove Knausgaard and Rachel Cusk. Strout is playing with form here, with ways to get at a story, yet nothing is tentative or haphazard. She is in supreme and magnificent command of this novel at all times....
My Name Is Lucy Barton is a short novel about love, particularly the complicated love between mothers and daughters... It evokes these connections in a style so spare, so pure and so profound the book almost seems to be a kind of scripture or sutra, if a very down-to-earth and unpretentious one
Her concise writing is a masterclass in deceptive simplicity...Strout writes with an exacting rhythm, with each word and clause perfectly placed and weighted and each sentence as clear and bracing as grapefruit. It's a small masterpiece
This short, simple, quiet novel wriggles its way right into your heart and stays there
A beautifully taut novel
Agleam with extraordinary psychological insights...delicate, tender but ruthless reveries
An eerie, compelling novel, its deceptively simple language is a 'slight rush of words' which hold much more than they seem capable of containing...This novel is about the need to create a story we can live with when the real story cannot be told...
Strout uses a different voice herself in this novel: a spare simple one, elegiac in tone that sometimes brings to mind Joan Didion's
This is a glorious novel, deft, tender and true. Read it
An exquisitely written story...a brutally honest, absorbing and emotive read
Honest, intimate and ultimately unforgettable
Sympathetic, subtle and sometimes shocking
Plain and beautiful...Strout writes with an extraordinary tenderness and restraint
One of this year's best novels: an intense, beautiful book about a mother and a daughter, and the difficulty and ambivalence of family life
Elizabeth Strout's prose is like words doing jazz
Elizabeth Strout's Olive Kitteridge is the best novel I've read for some time
An exquisite novel of careful words and vibrating silences
In this quiet, well observed novel, a mother and her mysteriously ill daughter rebuild their relationship in a New York hospital room. Deft and tender, it lingers in the mind
A worthy follow-up to Olive Kitteridge
I loved My Name is Lucy Barton: she gets better with each book
The standout novel of the year - a visceral account of the relations between mother and daughter and the unreliability of memory
In a brilliant year for fiction, I've admired the nuanced restraint of Elizabeth Strout's My Name is Lucy Barton
Elizabeth Strout's My Name is Lucy Barton shouldn't work, but its frail texture was a triumph of tenderness, and sent me back to her excellent Olive Kitteridge
A rich account of a relationship between mother and daughter, the frailty of memory and the power of healing
This physically slight book packs an unexpected emotional punch
A novel offering more hope
My Name Is Lucy Barton intrigues and pierces with its evocative, skin-peeling back remembrances of growing up dirt-poor.