The Burgess Boys

Resumen del libro

Haunted by the freak accident that killed their father when they were children, Jim and Bob Burgess escaped from their Maine hometown of Shirley Falls for New York City as soon as they possibly could. Jim, a sleek, successful corporate lawyer, has belittled his bighearted brother their whole lives, and Bob, a legal aid attorney who idolises Jim, has always taken it in his stride. But their long-standing dynamic is upended when their sister, Susan - the sibling who stayed behind - urgently calls them home.

Her lonely teenage son, Zach, has landed himself into a world of trouble, and Susan desperately needs their help. And so the Burgess brothers return to the landscape of their childhood, where the long-buried tensions that have shaped and shadowed their relationship begin to surface in unexpected ways that will change them forever.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;P x{0026}lt;B Elizabeth Strout x{0026}lt;/B (Portland, 1956) es una novelista norteamericana autora de x{0026}lt;I Amy e Isabellex{0026}lt;/I (1998, ganadora del Premio Art Seidenbaum de x{0026}lt;I Los Angeles Timesx{0026}lt;/I y del Premio Heartland del x{0026}lt;I Chicago Tribunex{0026}lt;/I ), x{0026}lt;I Quédate conmigox{0026}lt;/I y x{0026}lt;I Los hermanos Burgessx{0026}lt;/I , así como de las exitosas sagas protagonizadas por Olive Kitteridge x{0026} x02014;x{0026}lt;I Olive Kitteridgex{0026}lt;/I , ganadora de los premios Pulitzer, Llibreter, Bancarella y Mondello y que se convirtió en una aclamada serie de televisión, y x{0026}lt;I Luz de febrerox{0026}lt;/I x{0026} x02014; y por Lucy Barton x{0026} x02014;x{0026}lt;I Me llamo Lucy Bartonx{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I Todo es posiblex{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I Ay, Williamx{0026}lt;/I (considerado uno de los mejores libros del año según x{0026}lt;I The Timesx{0026}lt;/I y finalista del Premio Booker, con la que Alfaguara inició en 2022 la publicación de la obra de Strout), y, ahora, x{0026}lt;I Lucy y el marx{0026}lt;/I x{0026} x02014;. Además, ha sido finalista del Premio PEN/Faulkner y del Premio Orange. Actualmente vive entre Nueva York y Portland.x{0026}lt;/P