My Name Is Lucy Barton

Posted on 07 July 2017 by Elizabeth Strout

The profound mother daughter bond is explored through a mother s hospital visit to her estranged daughter by the Pulitzer Prize winning author of Olive Kitteridge and The Burgess Boys.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. Free Read My Name Is Lucy Barton [ By ] Elizabeth Strout [ Kindle ePUB or eBook ] – kino-fada.fr When I first started reading this I had the feeling that it was going to be a remarkable story It is after all written by Elizabeth Strout I also thought when I first met Lucy Barton that this was going to be a story about an ordinary woman I was so wrong about that In this short book I came to know what an extraordinary character Lucy Barton is She s someone I d want to know and a character I ll remember It s painfully sad at times in her reminiscences of her life growing up in Amgash When I first started reading this I had the feeling that it was going to be a remarkable story It is after all written by Elizabeth Strout I also thought when I first met Lucy Barton that this was going to be a story about an ordinary woman I was so wrong about that In this short book I came to know what an extraordinary character Lucy Barton is She s someone I d want to know and a character I ll remember It s painfully sad at times in her reminiscences of her life growing up in Amgash , Illinois She carries the burdens of a none too happy childhood, one of poverty and sometimes abuse , sheltered from the outside world in many ways There are too few glimpses of joy in this complex , dysfunctional family but yet Lucy still can t help but think, how our roots were twisted so tenaciously around one another s hearts Lucy remembers hers childhood as the narrative progressives and it moves ...When I finished this book, I didn t think I landed in wowsville But after sticking my nose back into the book, I m changing my tune Every page I reread seemed rich and wow y So what the hell s going on This is all very confusing.First, here s the plot, the whole plot, and nothing but the plot Lucy the storyteller is lying in the hospital and her estranged mother comes from afar and sits there for five days And I really mean she just sits there, except for sharing a few laughs like giving When I finished this book, I didn t think I landed in wowsville But after sticking my nose back into the book, I m changing my tune Every page I reread seemed rich and wow y So what the hell s going on This is all very confusing.First, here s the plot, the whole plot, and nothing but the plot Lucy the storyteller is lying in the hospital and her estranged mother comes from afar and sits there for five days And I really mean she just sits there, except for sharing a few laughs like giving the nurses funny names and blathering on about the sad fate of various women from their hometown Ah, and the hometown is called Amgash Is that supposed to be a disguise for Anguish Mostly the room is filled with awkward silence or silly gossip But thanks to first person narrative, we get to see inside Lucy s head about her growing up in poverty, being abused, rising above it all, plus her constant worry about whether her mother loves her There are hints of ...I am totally in awe of this writer s talents Whether one likes her characters or not and truthfully some are unlikable if understandable, she makes the reader feel something In this novel she takes a woman looking back on the nine weeks she spent in the hospital I can relate when her two daughters were young The few days her mother spent at her bedside, a mother she has been estranged from for many years, and tries to find a sort of peace or at least understanding of the family she has lef I am totally in awe of this writer s talents Whether one likes her characters or not and truthfully some are unlikable if understandable, she makes the reader feel something In this novel she takes a woman looking back on the nine weeks she spent in the hospital I can relate when her two daughters were young The few days her ... This is a story about a woman who loves her daughter Imperfectly Because we all love imperfectlyDepressing as hell But I enjoyed wallowing in it for a while.My Name Is Lucy Barton covers a life story, poverty, abuse, art, marriage, the AIDs epidemic and subsequent fear, and a difficult relationship between a mother and daughter, all in less than two hundred pages It s quite emotionally exhausting for such a short book but perhaps because I had so few prior expectations I found myself This is a story about a woman who loves her daughter Imp...Elizabeth Strout Good Lord This book had the same effect on me as Olive Kitteridge I m reading through this beautifully written, way too short novel, and the whole time I m thinking about my own life and my past and my family and my relationships with others She takes this simple story, written like a memoir or something, I guess kind of quick flashes of stories from the past and present, and it s just wonderful It s so good But the whole time as I m learningabout Lucy, it s like Elizabeth Strout Good Lord This book had the same effect on me as Olive Kitteridge I m reading through this beautifully written, way too short novel, and the whole time I m thinking about my own life and my past and my family and my relationships with others She takes this simple story, written like a memoir or something, I guess kind of quick flashes of stories from the past and present, and it s just wonderful It s so good But the whole time as I m learningabout Lucy, it s like a mirror is being turned back at me forcing me to get all introspectiv...Updating this to 5 I was totally captivated by this soulful, unassuming narrative that packs a punch of emotion An ordinary story with an extraordinary character The narrative begins with Lucy Barton reflecting on her life from the hospital bed where she spent 8 weeks after getting an infection from surgery During this time, her mother whom she is estranged with, visits and stays for 5 meaningful days She recalls her upbringing the tough times and fleetingly disturbing moments that are Updating this to 5 I was totally captivated by this soulful, unassuming narrative that packs a punch of emotion An ordinary story with an extraordinary character The narrative begins with Lucy Barton reflecting on her life from the hospital bed where she spent 8 weeks after getting a...UPDATE It came to my attention I may have given too much detail information shame on me SPOILERS may be included in review.Lucy and her family grew up in a tiny rural town of Amgash, Illinois We were oddities, our family Lucy had a brother and a sister They all understood that they were different than other children Your family stinks children would tease The Barton family was poor, often in need of a bar of soap The father worked on farm machinery fired rehired o UPDATE It came to my attention I may have given too much detail informat...4.5 starsThis book I really can t stop thinking about this book What at first felt like a simple, quietly understated series of snapshots of a woman s life, has turned into a powerful novel that packs its punch through everything that is not spoken Beautifully expressed with sparse prose, My Name is Lucy Barton left me breathless and, I have to admit, a bit teary by book s endLonely was the first flavor I had tasted in my life, and it was always there, hidden inside the crevices of my mout 4.5 starsThis book I really can t stop thinking about this book What at first felt like a simple, quietly understated series of snapshots of a woman s life, has turned into a powerful novel that packs its punch through everything that is not spoken Beautifully expressed with spars...I must have read a different version of the book than everyone else My version waslike notes where each note could have been formed into a chapter and the chapters could have been organized into a story If it is the actual novel that I just finished, I m completely missin...This book is universally loved by my friends and I understand why that is, though I can t embrace this book as others have I admire the style of it and I acknowledge that the story was deliberately designed and assembled as it was, even though that was the piece that kept me from connecting with it the way others have There were solid, valuable messages in this gentle story delivered in a tentative and scattered way At times I felt as though I w...

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07 July 2017

Elizabeth Strout