Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Strout, Elizabeth

Titel

My name is Lucy Barton : a novel

Ort / Verlag

[London] : Viking

Erscheinungsjahr

2016

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Lucy Barton is recovering slowly from what should have been a simple operation. Her mother, to whom she hasn't spoken for many years, comes to see her. Gentle gossip about people from Lucy's childhood in Amgash, Illinois, seems to reconnect them, but just below the surface lie the tension and longing that have informed every aspect of Lucy's life: her escape from her troubled family, her desire to become a writer, her marriage, her love for her two daughters