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Tell Me Everything: Oprah's Book Club
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With her remarkable insight into the human condition and silences that contain multitudes, Elizabeth Strout returns to the town of Crosby, Maine, and to her beloved cast of characters--Lucy Barton, Olive Kitteridge, Bob Burgess, and more--as they deal with a shocking crime in their midst, fall in love and yet choose to be apart, and grapple with the question, as Lucy Barton puts it, "What does anyone's life mean?" It's autumn in Maine, and the town lawyer Bob Burgess has become enmeshed in an unfolding murder investigation, defending a lonely, isolated man accused of killing his mother. He has also fallen into a deep and abiding friendship with the acclaimed writer Lucy Barton, who lives down the road in a house by the sea with her ex-husband, William. Together, Lucy and Bob go on walks and talk about their lives, their fears and regrets, and what might have been. Lucy, meanwhile, is finally introduced to the iconic Olive Kitteridge, now living in a retirement community on the edge of town. They spend afternoons together in Olive's apartment, telling each other stories. Stories about people they have known--"unrecorded lives," Olive calls them--reanimating them, and, in the process, imbuing their lives with meaning. Brimming with empathy and pathos, Tell Me Everything is Elizabeth Strout operating at the height of her powers, illuminating the ways in which our relationships keep us afloat. As Lucy says, "Love comes in so many different forms, but it is always love."
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Book Details
ISBN:
9780593446096
EAN:
9780593446096
Binding:
Hardcover
Pages:
352
Authors:
Elizabeth Strout
Publisher:
Random House
Published Date: 2024-10-09
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I love Olive, always, so it’s a joy that she is here. This book revisits other familiar characters as well as introducing new ones. They are all so real. Strout has a gift for character depth and I truly cared about everyone in this book. Storytelling between Lucy and Olive, Lucy’s and Bob’s connection, and Matt’s drama and growth are glowing threads connected to Bob being Bob every day. Another beautiful read from Elizabeth Strout.
Very interesting book about the simple lives of people and their relationship’s twisting and turning.But in the end “Love is”
Another wonderful Elizabeth Stout book. So good, I just didn't want it to end, I was with the characters wherever they were.
The book was an old library copy but in excellent condition & arrived quickly. The writing however, was rather pedantic. It was a good, but not compelling read.(Are we rating the seller or the author? I give the seller 5 stars but the book itself only 3 or 4.)
Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout brings together the characters she’s introduced readers to in her previous novels. In this volume, Bob Burgess is the center who draws the others into his orbit, but each has untold stories of their own to relate. Individually, these “unrecorded lives” have often been challenging, even painful, yet they are not extraordinary within the panoply of human experience. Likewise, the events and emotions they share when their lives are entangled in Strout’s latest book are unexceptionable. Except that in this author’s capable hands, each story acquires the depth, radiance, or tragedy that elevates it to a level worth telling and remembering. As a novelist myself (see my Amazon author page https://www.amazon.com/author/asewovenwords), I admire Strout’s gentle but firm control as she navigates the bumpy terrain her characters traverse. Their small worlds are big enough to accommodate us all. I didn’t want the book to end, and impatiently await Strout’s next book so she can tell me more.
