Anything Is Possible

Posted on 24 February 2018 by Elizabeth Strout

Short story collection Anything Is Possible explores the whole range of human emotion through the intimate dramas of people struggling to understand themselves and others.Here are two sisters one trades self respect for a wealthy husband while the other finds in the pages of a book a kindred spirit who changes her life The janitor at the local school has his faith tested in an encounter with an isolated man he has come to help a grown daughter longs for mother love even as she comes to accept her mother s happiness in a foreign country and the adult Lucy Barton the heroine of My Name Is Lucy Barton returns to visit her siblings after seventeen years of absence. Best Read [ Anything Is Possible ] By [ Elizabeth Strout ] For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr WONDERFUL LOVED IT MELTING WISH IT DIDN T HAVE TO END Elizabeth Strout begins with Tommy Guptill who once owned a dairy farm in Amgash, Illinois The house had burned down His family had to move to arun down town Their family went from having their home be a place that class trips came to to having to see their father pu...This is a wondrous book, it is my first read by Elizabeth Strout and I was just so impressed It is a beautifully written collection of 9 short stories set in Amgash, Illinois We encounter Lucy Barton through the perspectives of others, where she comes across as a wonderful woman, she has survived difficult circumstances, to become a renowned writer of a well received memoir I get to finally meet her in Sister, where she finally returns to Amgash only to find it isthan she can bear Stro This is a wondrous book, it is my first read by Elizabeth Strou...Linked stories from Lucy Barton s home town and the people that made up the town First story features Charlie, former maintenance man at the school the Barton children attended, an elderly man who remembers Lucy and tried to be kind to her, though many didn t The Barton s too poor and in fact Lucy s brother Pete still lives alone, in the dilapidated house of his youth Charlie makes a point to visit this lonesome and strange man though he has good reason to write the whole family off as you wi Linked stories from Lucy Barton s home town and the people that made up the town First story features Charlie, former maintenance man at the school the Barton children attended, an elderly man who remembers Lucy and tried to be kind to her, though many didn t The Barton s too poor and in fact Lucy s brother Pete still lives alone, in the dilapidated house of his youth Charlie makes a point to visit this lonesome and strange man though he has good reason to write the whole family off as you will see when you read t...I m between 4 and 4.5 stars here.I don t know about you, but people watching utterly fascinates me It s really amusing to watch the dynamics of families and groups of friends, but what s evenfun is making up stories about those we see, developing a narrative about their relationships, challenges, and victories It would be great to find out how far from the truth these stories are, wouldn t it Reading Elizabeth Strout s new collection of...Elizabeth Strout is one of our best contemporary authors, so I was thrilled to get an advanced copy of this book I was especially excited to read it because this book is a continuation of My Name Is Lucy Barton, which was moving in so many ways I was definitely not disappointed This is a collection of connected stories and probably could be read as a stand alone, but I have to admit that my enjoyment and appreciation of it was enhanced by having met Lucy previously.Some of the unspoken things Elizabeth Strout is one of our best contemporary authors, so I was thrilled to get an advanced copy of this book I was especially excited to read it because this book is a continuation of My Name Is Lucy Barton, which was moving in so many ways I was definitely not disappointed This is a collection of connected stories and probably could be read as a stand alone, bu...NOW AVAILABLE Once again, Elizabeth Strout has exquisitely examined and shared the life of a small group of people in a small town in this lovely compilation of intermingled stories that form this novel If you ve already read My Name is Lucy Barton, you ll be familiar with many of them, and with Lucy InAnything is Possible , the focus is again on the relationships, in this case most are relatives of one degree or another of Lucy Siblings Cousins Parents Strained relationships in o NOW AVAILABLE Once again, Elizabeth Strout has exquisitely examined and shared the life of a small group of people in a small town in this lovely compilation of intermingled stories that form this novel If you ve already read My Name is Lucy Barton, you ll be familiar with many of them, and with Lucy InAnything is Possible , the focus is again on the relationships, in this case most are relatives of one degree or another of Lucy Siblings Cousins Parents Strained relationships in one way or another, all Some have shared stories, shameful secrets that they hold close, they can t share them, can t lose them, so they continue to hold onto them to hide them fr...Once again, here is another book I read for a Goodreads challenge on audio And it s another one I m going to buy and add to my collection BUT I need to buy the first book Lucy Barton first I had no idea this was the...I haven t read My Name is Lucy Barton but after finishing this I totally want to, also maybe if I would have read it before hand I d have given this five stars I really enjoyed the writing style, I actually felt the difference between chapters when the point of view shifted to that of another character which is amazing in my opinion because everyone has a certain writing style and because of that a lot...Strout has quickly become for me a go to author She creates memorable and complex characters for the simplest of stories.Everything is Possible is an attestation to this She links the character from my Name is Lucy Barton and weaves her into vignettes of the townspeople she grew up with Those who knew of her as she was able to flee the stifling small town and successfully move on from her own sadness and despair Themes of forgiveness, redemption and ...Firecrackers in my soul Socks knocked off AGAIN My feet are cold, but my soul is on fire This collection of stories goes directly to my all time favorites shelf Brilliant, just brilliant I can barely sit still just thinking about it.I wasn t super hot to try this collection, because even though I gave My Name Is Lucy Barton 4 stars, I wasn t all a gush I had loved its subtle tension and its introspection, but I had had sort of a hefty Complaint Board My biggest gripes were that Lucy and Firecrackers in my soul Socks knocked off AGAIN My feet are cold, but my soul is on fire This collection of stories goes directly to my all time favorites shelf Brilliant, just brilliant I can barely sit still just thinking about it.I wasn t super hot to try this collection, because even though I gave My Name Is Lucy Barton 4 stars, I wasn t all a gush I had loved its subtle tensio...

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24 February 2018

Elizabeth Strout