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Abide with Meby Elizabeth StroutISBN 1400062071 (1-4000-6207-1)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Abide with Me: A Novel'Book summary:In her luminous and long-awaited new novel, bestselling author Elizabeth Strout welcomes readers back to the archetypal, lovely landscape of northern New England, where the events of her first novel, Amy and Isabelle, unfolded. In the late 1950s, in the small town of West Annett, Maine, a minister struggles to regain his calling, his family, and his happiness in the wake of profound loss. At the same time, the community he has served so charismatically must come to terms with its own strengths and failingsfaith and hypocrisy, loyalty and abandonmentwhen a dark secret is revealed.
Tyler Caskey has come to love West Annett, just up the road from where he was born. The short, brilliant summers and the sharp, piercing winters fill him with aweas does his congregation, full of good people who seek his guidance and listen earnestly as he preaches. But after suffering a terrible loss, Tyler finds it hard to return to himself as he once was. He hasnt had The Feelingthat God is all around him, in the beauty of the worldfor quite some time. He struggles to find the right words in his sermons and in his conversations with those facing crises of their own, and to bring his five-year-old daughter, Katherine, out of the silence she has observed in the wake of the familys tragedy.
A congregation that had once been patient and kind during Tylers grief now questions his leadership and propriety. In the kitchens, classrooms, offices, and stores of the village, anger and gossip have started to swirl. And in Tylers darkest hour, a startling discovery will test his congregations humanityand his own will to endure the kinds of trials that sooner or later test us all.
In prose incandescent and artful, Elizabeth Strout draws readers into the details of ordinary life in a way that makes it extraordinary. All is consideredlife, love, God, and communitywithin these pages, and all is made new by this writers boundless compassion and graceful prose.
From the Hardcover edition. [via]More editions of Abide with Me:
- Abide with Me: ISBN 0743239318 (0-7432-3931-8)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster, Limited - Abide with Me: ISBN 0743462289 (0-7434-6228-9)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster, Limited - Abide With Me: ISBN 0812971825 (0-8129-7182-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc - Abide With Me: ISBN 0739325914 (0-7393-2591-4)
Hardcover, Random House Large Print - Abide with Me: ISBN 074323930X (0-7432-3930-X)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster, Limited - Abide with Me: A Novel: ISBN 1400062071 (1-4000-6207-1)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
- Abide with Me: ISBN 0743239318 (0-7432-3931-8)
Amy and Isabelleby Elizabeth StroutISBN 1417644869 (1-4176-4486-9)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Amy And Isabelle'Book summary:"It was terribly hot the summer Mr. Robertson left town." For Amy Goodrow and her mother, Isabelle, the heat of that summer is the least of their problems. Other citizens in the New England mill town of Shirley Falls are bothered by the heat and by "other things too: Further up the river crops weren't right--pole beans were small, shriveled on the vine, carrots stopped growing when they were no bigger than the fingers of a child; and two UFOs had apparently been sighted in the north of the state." But Amy and Isabelle have a more private misery: a seemingly unbridgeable chasm has opened between this once-close mother and daughter and nothing will ever be the same again. For Amy has fallen in love with her high-school math teacher, Mr. Robertson, who has gone way beyond the bounds of propriety by encouraging the crush. When Isabelle finds out, she is horrified to realize that her anger at him is dwarfed by her rage at her own daughter for "enjoying the sexual pleasures of a man while she herself had not."
Mother-daughter novels can, by virtue of their subject matter, often seem claustrophobic, a little overwrought; Elizabeth Strout masterfully avoids this problem by placing Amy and Isabelle in the larger context of the community they inhabit. Though her main focus is on the Goodrow women, Strout often detours into the lives and thoughts of her many secondary characters: Isabelle's coworkers Dottie Brown and Fat Bev; Amy's best friend, Stacy Burrows; Stacy's ex-boyfriend, Paul Bellows; and women from Isabelle's church such as Peg Dunlap and Barbara Rawley. She also introduces a chilling frisson of menace with the unsolved abduction of a 12-year-old girl and a mysterious obscene phone-caller. Like the best of Alice Hoffman, Amy and Isabelle offers up a moving yet resolutely unsentimental portrait of people coming to terms with their lives, finding unsuspected nobility in themselves and unexpected kindness in others along the way. Elizabeth Strout has written a gem of a novel. --Alix Wilber [via]
More editions of Amy and Isabelle:
- Amy and Isabelle: ISBN 1568957289 (1-56895-728-9)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc - Amy and Isabelle: ISBN 0375705198 (0-375-70519-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc - Amy and Isabelle: ISBN 0743467922 (0-7434-6792-2)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster, Limited - Amy and Isabelle: ISBN 0792723430 (0-7927-2343-0)
Hardcover, BBC Audiobooks America - Amy and Isabelle: ISBN 0684861593 (0-684-86159-3)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster - Amy and Isabelle : A Novel: ISBN 0375501347 (0-375-50134-7)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group - Amy and Isabelle: ISBN 0684858231 (0-684-85823-1)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster, Limited - Amy And Isabelle: ISBN 1417644869 (1-4176-4486-9)
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- Amy and Isabelle: ISBN 1568957289 (1-56895-728-9)
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Ethan Frome and Summerby Edith Wharton, Elizabeth StroutISBN 0375757287 (0-375-75728-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ethan Frome and Summer'Book summary:This edition presents Wharton's two most controversial stories, which she considered inseperable, in one volume for the first time. Set in frigid New England, both deal with sexual awakening and appetite and their devastating consequences. This text includes newly commissioned notes. [via]
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Maine: The Seasonsby Terrell S. Lester, Ann Beattie, Richard Ford, Richard Russo, Elizabeth StroutISBN 0375411186 (0-375-41118-6)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Olive Kitteridge: Library Editionby Elizabeth StroutISBN 140006208X (1-4000-6208-X)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Olive Kitteridge: Library Edition'Book summary:WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE
In a voice more powerful and compassionate than ever before, New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Strout binds together thirteen rich, luminous narratives into a book with the heft of a novel, through the presence of one larger-than-life, unforgettable character: Olive Kitteridge.
At the edge of the continent, Crosby, Maine, may seem like nowhere, but seen through this brilliant writers eyes, its in essence the whole world, and the lives that are lived there are filled with all of the grand human dramadesire, despair, jealousy, hope, and love.
At times stern, at other times patient, at times perceptive, at other times in sad denial, Olive Kitteridge, a retired schoolteacher, deplores the changes in her little town and in the world at large, but she doesnt always recognize the changes in those around her: a lounge musician haunted by a past romance: a former student who has lost the will to live: Olives own adult child, who feels tyrannized by her irrational sensitivities; and Henry, who finds his loyalty to his marriage both a blessing and a curse.
As the townspeople grapple with their problems, mild and dire, Olive is brought to a deeper understanding of herself and her lifesometimes painfully, but always with ruthless honesty. Olive Kitteridge offers profound insights into the human conditionits conflicts, its tragedies and joys, and the endurance it requires. [via]More editions of Olive Kitteridge: Library Edition:
Storiesby Elizabeth StroutISBN 0743467728 (0-7434-6772-8)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster, Limited
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Amy and Isabelleby Elizabeth Strout , Anna Mauri i BatlleISBN 8429748601 (84-297-4860-1)
Hardcover, Edicions Península 62
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