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Oh William! Hardback - 2021

by Elizabeth Strout

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This seller has earned a 3.92 of 5 Stars rating from internet customers.
3.92 / 5 (62 total reviews)

Readers largely praised Elizabeth Strout’s intimate, spare prose and Lucy Barton’s compelling voice in a character-driven novel that probes long relationships, aging, and self-knowledge. Many found the portrait of Lucy and her history realistic and absorbing, with sharp insights delivered in deceptively simple language. Reservations focused on William—seen by some as dull or objectionable—and on the deliberately thin plot, though most still recommended the book; some preferred it to My Name Is Lucy Barton, while others leaned toward the Olive Kitteridge novels.

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST - The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Olive Kitteridge and My Name is Lucy Barton explores the mysteries of marriage and the secrets we keep, as a former couple reckons with where they've come from--and what they've left behind.

ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air

"Elizabeth Strout is one of my very favorite writers, so the fact that Oh William! may well be my favorite of her books is a mathematical equation for joy. The depth, complexity, and love contained in these pages is a miraculous achievement."--Ann Patchett, author of The Dutch House

I would like to say a few things about my first husband, William.

Lucy Barton is a writer, but her ex-husband, William, remains a hard man to read. William, she confesses, has always been a mystery to me. Another mystery is why the two have remained connected after all these years. They just are.

So Lucy is both surprised and not surprised when William asks her to join him on a trip to investigate a recently uncovered family secret--one of those secrets that rearrange everything we think we know about the people closest to us. There are fears and insecurities, simple joys and acts of tenderness, and revelations about affairs and other spouses, parents and their children. On every page of this exquisite novel we learn more about the quiet forces that hold us together--even after we've grown apart.

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, Time, Vulture, She Reads

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  • Title Oh William!
  • Author Elizabeth Strout
  • Binding Hardback
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Random House
  • Publication date 2021-10-19
  • ISBN 9780812989434 / 0812989430
  • Weight 0.85 lbs (0.39 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.19 x 5.75 x 1.1 in (20.80 x 14.61 x 2.79 cm)
  • Themes
    • Topical: Family
  • Category Fiction - General
  • Library of Congress subjects Divorced men, Man-woman relationships
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2020044757
  • Dewey Decimal Code 813.54

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  • Booklist, 08/01/2021, Page 24
  • Kirkus Reviews, 08/01/2021, Page 0
  • Library Journal, 09/24/2021, Page 1
  • Publishers Weekly, 08/02/2021, Page 0
  • Shelf Awareness, 10/22/2021, Page 0

About the author

Elizabeth Strout is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Olive, Again; Anything Is Possible, winner of the Story Prize; My Name Is Lucy Barton; The Burgess Boys; Olive Kitteridge, for which she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize; Abide with Me; and Amy and Isabelle, winner of the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize. She has also been a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize in London. She lives in Maine.
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