Lucy By the Sea

Resumen del libro

From Pulitzer Prize-winning, 1 New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Strout comes a poignant, pitch-perfect novel about a divorced couple stuck together during lockdown--and the love, loss, despair, and hope that animate us even as the world seems to be falling apart.

With her trademark spare, crystalline prose--a voice infused with "intimate, fragile, desperate humanness" (The Washington Post)--Elizabeth Strout turns her exquisitely tuned eye to the inner workings of the human heart, following the indomitable heroine of My Name Is Lucy Barton through the early days of the pandemic.

As a panicked world goes into lockdown, Lucy Barton is uprooted from her life in Manhattan and bundled away to a small town in Maine by her ex-husband and on-again, off-again friend, William. For the next several months, it's just Lucy, William, and their complex past together in a little house nestled against the moody, swirling sea.

Rich with empathy and emotion, Lucy by the Sea vividly captures the fear and struggles that come with isolation, as well as the hope, peace, and possibilities that those long, quiet days can inspire. At the heart of this story are the deep human connections that unite us even when we're apart--the pain of a beloved daughter's suffering, the emptiness that comes from the death of a loved one, the promise of a new friendship, and the comfort of an old, enduring love.

Biografía del autor

Elizabeth Strout nació en Maine, pero desde hace años reside en Nueva York. Autora imprescindible en la literatura contemporánea, cuenta con varias obras, entre ellas Los hermanos Burgess, Abide with Me y Amy e Isabelle. Duomo ha publicado con una gran acogida entre los lectores y la crítica Me llamo Lucy Barton (2016), Todo es posible (2017) y Olive Kitteridge (2018), que obtuvo el Premio Pulitzer, el Premi Llibreter, el Premio Bancarella y el Premio Mondello, y se convirtió en una alabada serie de televisión.