Strout won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2009 for her novel about a grade-school teacher, her family and her community, Olive Kitteridge (2008), also a commercial success with over a million copies sold. The novel became a best-seller and was made into a television film starring Elizabeth Shue (2001), directed by Lloyd Kramer. Her first, Amy and Isabelle (1998), is about the difficult relationship between a mother and her teenage daughter in a small mill town in Maine. Strout (born 1956 in Portland, Maine) has published seven novels. Lucy Barton is a figure who reckons with all of this and in a compassionate and thoughtful way that makes her an important addition-and an exception-in contemporary American fiction. History, poverty and the difficulty of human relationships are baked into the lives of the characters. Unexpected and powerful feelings surface in what they discover about it in this book. Neither has resolved the issues bound up with his or her past, although they have both tried. The two are in their sixties and early seventies and the novel takes place in recent times. In Oh William! Lucy Barton, a successful writer living in Manhattan, ventures into the family past of her ex-husband William, a scientist at New York University. Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout, New York, Random House, 2021, 240 pp.
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