6/10/2023 0 Comments Lucy barton books in order![]() But before we move on to Lucy, our conversation begins with the question of what’s going on now with her author. (Lucy’s husband David has recently died and, Strout writes in the opening section, “in my grief for him I have felt grief for William as well.”) Reading Oh William! is a joy, a settling back into a beloved connection, hearing how her life has gone, what she’s up to now. Oh William! circles back to Lucy and that first husband, Tom, after their children have grown and both have remarried. Strout’s story collection, Anything Is Possible(2017), shifts the focus to characters in Amgash who knew Lucy as a child. ![]() By the time the novel is over, both parents and William have disappeared from her life. Her mother visits, and tells her stories about their Amgash neighbors and friends. She misses her husband William and two young daughters. We first meet Lucy in “a very strange state-a literally feverish waiting” as she lies in a hospital bed in New York for nearly nine weeks while healing from an infection after an appendectomy. ![]() ![]() Her fifth novel, My Name Is Lucy Barton (2016), introduced Lucy, a writer from small-town Amgash, Illinois. ![]() And what a pleasure it is to reconnect.Įlizabeth Strout’s 2008 novel about a cantankerous Mainer, Olive Kittredge, won her a Pulitzer and fascinated readers, as did the follow-up, Olive, Again. ![]()
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