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My Name Is Lucy Barton
From The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author Of Olive Kitteridge
idioma: inglês
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PENGUIN BOOKS LTD, março de 2017 ‧
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SINOPSE
Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2016
Waterstones Fiction Book of the Month for March 2017
This must be the way that most of us manoeuvre through the world, half knowing, half not, visited by memories that can’t possibly be true… So much of life seems speculation.
My Name is Lucy Barton is a perfect crystallisation of quiet, subtly brilliant talent from one of America’s finest contemporary writers.
Lucy Barton has spent her life running away from her past; from an isolated, penurious upbringing in Illinois where she and her siblings often went hungry. Now Lucy has moved through a faltering marriage to a carefully constructed new life in New York as a writer, replacing rural, open skylines for the Chrysler Building looming large on a tightly enclosed horizon.
When Lucy finds herself recovering in hospital, she is visited unexpectedly by the mother she hasn’t seen for many years. As the two of them talk, a seam of memory is opened wide, forcing Lucy to confront the past she has struggled so hard to keep at bay. As old tensions rise to the surface Lucy tries to accept what her life really amounts to; the many roles she has played, the people she has loved, abandoned and betrayed.
At heart, this is a book about women’s lives, about mothers and daughters and the brittle love that somehow endures beyond distance, longing, pain and loss.
In Lucy Barton, Strout has created an everywoman for our time; tenderly perceptive, humanly frail and utterly unforgettable.
Waterstones Fiction Book of the Month for March 2017
This must be the way that most of us manoeuvre through the world, half knowing, half not, visited by memories that can’t possibly be true… So much of life seems speculation.
My Name is Lucy Barton is a perfect crystallisation of quiet, subtly brilliant talent from one of America’s finest contemporary writers.
Lucy Barton has spent her life running away from her past; from an isolated, penurious upbringing in Illinois where she and her siblings often went hungry. Now Lucy has moved through a faltering marriage to a carefully constructed new life in New York as a writer, replacing rural, open skylines for the Chrysler Building looming large on a tightly enclosed horizon.
When Lucy finds herself recovering in hospital, she is visited unexpectedly by the mother she hasn’t seen for many years. As the two of them talk, a seam of memory is opened wide, forcing Lucy to confront the past she has struggled so hard to keep at bay. As old tensions rise to the surface Lucy tries to accept what her life really amounts to; the many roles she has played, the people she has loved, abandoned and betrayed.
At heart, this is a book about women’s lives, about mothers and daughters and the brittle love that somehow endures beyond distance, longing, pain and loss.
In Lucy Barton, Strout has created an everywoman for our time; tenderly perceptive, humanly frail and utterly unforgettable.
CRÍTICAS DE IMPRENSA
‘It is a study of filial love and of how our upbringing impacts on our futures. It is also gorgeously written and often very funny. I read it over a few hours last Saturday and was thunderstruck by its gentle power.’
Chris White, Waterstones’ Fiction Buyer
‘Through Lucy Barton, Strout has made a remarkable virtue of the novelist's trick - often missed - of telling enough but not too much. This is a glorious novel, deft, tender and true. Read it.’
The Telegraph
DETALHES
| Propriedade | Descrição |
|---|---|
| ISBN: | 9780241248782 |
| Editor: | PENGUIN BOOKS LTD |
| Data de Lançamento: | março de 2017 |
| Idioma: | Inglês |
| Dimensões: | 131 x 198 x 11 mm |
| Encadernação: | Capa mole |
| Páginas: | 208 |
| Tipo de produto: | Livro |
| Classificação Temática: |
Livros em Inglês
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Literatura
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Ficção
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| EAN: | 9780241248782 |
OPINIÃO DOS LEITORES
Um mergulho no Inconsciente
Susana Sousa
A infância nunca nos abandona, e quando os eventos são traumáticos nem as luzes do mais brilhante edifício conseguem ocultar os fantasmas que habitam no nosso inconsciente. A presença da mãe e o dom da escrita entrelaçam uma narrativa cativante.
Estranho... mas cativante!
Ana Beatriz Ferreira
Este livro explora a relação conturbada entre mãe e filha. Dito de uma forma simples, consiste na filha a pedir à mãe para reviver o passado familiar, a fim de tentar arranjar uma explicação para determinados acontecimentos que a marcaram e fizeram-na sofrer. A história é simples mas escrita de uma forma que nos cativa a continuar a ler e a tentar perceber se a narradora (filha) consegue finalmente alcançar a paz de espirito que desejava.
SOBRE O AUTOR
Elizabeth Strout
Elizabeth Strout nasceu em 1956 em Portland, nos Estados Unidos da América, e é uma das romancistas americanas mais aclamadas da atualidade. Além do sucesso mundial que obteve com o romance Olive Kitteridge, que lhe valeu o Prémio Pulitzer, recebeu ainda o Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award e o Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize pelo seu romance de estreia, Amy e Isabelle. Foi também finalista dos prémios PEN/Faulkner Award, Orange Prize e International Dublin Literary Award, no Reino Unido.
Na Alfaguara, estão publicados oito romances de Elizabeth Strout. Além de Amy e Isabelle, seis romances em torno de duas personagens centrais da sua obra: a escritora Lucy Barton é a protagonista de O meu nome é Lucy Barton (finalista do Booker Prize), Tudo é possível (vencedor do Story Prize), Oh, William! e Lucy à beira-mar, todos eles aclamados pela crítica; a personagem mais célebre da autora está no centro do romance homónimo, Olive Kitteridge - vencedor dos prémios Pulitzer, Llibreter, Bancarella y Mondello e adaptado a uma aclamada série de televisão - e de A segunda vida de Olive Kitteridge. Conta-me tudo é o romance que junta Lucy Barton e Olive Kitteridge na mesma história.
Elizabeth Strout vive entre Nova Iorque e Portland.
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