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Olive, Again follows the blunt, contradictory yet deeply lovable Olive Kitteridge as she grows older, navigating the second half of her life as she comes to terms with the changes - sometimes welcome, sometimes not - in her own existence and in those around her. Olive adjusts to her new life with her second husband, challenges her estranged son and his family to accept him, experiences loss and loneliness, witnesses the triumphs and heartbreaks of her friends and neighbours in the small coastal town of Crosby, Maine - and, finally, opens herself to new lessons about life.

At times stern, at other times patient, at times perceptive, at other times in sad denial, Olive Kitteridge, a retired schoolteacher, deplores the changes in her little town of Crosby, Maine, and in the world at large, but she doesn’t always recognize the changes in those around her: a lounge musician haunted by a past romance; a former student who has lost the will to live; Olive’s own adult child, who feels tyrannized by her irrational sensitivities; and her husband, Henry, who finds his loyalty to his marriage both a blessing and a curse.

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of My Name Is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout, read by Kimberly Farr. A mother comes to visit her daughter in hospital after having not seen her in many years.

With her remarkable insight into the human condition and silences that contain multitudes, Elizabeth Strout returns to the town of Crosby, Maine, and to her beloved cast of characters—Lucy Barton, Olive Kitteridge, Bob Burgess, and more—as they deal with a shocking crime in their midst, fall in love and yet choose to be apart, and grapple with the question, as Lucy Barton puts it, “What does anyone’s life mean?”

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.

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.

Todo es posible cuenta la historia de los habitantes de Amgash, una ciudad rural y polvorienta de Illinois que vio nacer a Lucy Barton, quien más tarde se convirtió en una escritora de éxito afincada en Nueva York. Cuando Lucy vuelve a su lugar de origen al cabo de diecisiete años de ausencia para visitar a los hermanos que dejó atrás, el regreso desencadena una serie de historias por parte de quienes la conocieron: recuerdos de soledad y condescendencia, sutiles y poderosos sentimientos, y el creciente abismo entre los deseos y la realidad de cada cual.

En cuanto pudieron, Jim y Bob Burgess huyeron de su pueblo natal en Maine a Nueva York. Jim, un elegante y exitoso abogado corporativo, lleva toda la vida subestimando a su hermano, y Bob, un abogado del estado que idolatra a Jim, ha llevado una vida tranquila. Sin embargo, esta dinámica se ve alterada cuando la hermana de los dos, Susan, que se quedó en su pueblo, los llama por un asunto urgente. Su hijo adolescente se ha metido en un mundo de problemas, y Susan necesita desesperadamente su ayuda.

Prickly, wry, resistant to change yet ruthlessly honest and deeply empathetic, Olive Kitteridge is “a compelling life force” (San Francisco Chronicle). The New Yorker has said that Elizabeth Strout “animates the ordinary with an astonishing force”, and she has never done so more clearly than in this book, where the iconic Olive struggles to understand not only herself and her own life but the lives of those around her in the town of Crosby, Maine.

Lydia España—once a wealthy, spoiled daughter of Cuba—works at a sewing factory in New York. Adjusting to her sharp change of circumstances, missing the days when her prosperous father provided her with every luxury, she ruminates on the incident that drove her away from her homeland in the late 1940s—until she falls in love with Raul, a kindhearted, working-class waiter who sees Lydia as the “Queen of the Congo Line” she used to be: the empress of "the most beautiful and splendid season, which is love.”

Es otoño en Maine y Bob Burgess, el abogado del pueblo, está inmerso en la investigación de un asesinato, mientras entabla una profunda amistad con la aclamada escritora Lucy Barton, que vive calle abajo con su exmarido William. Juntos, Lucy y Bob salen a pasear y hablan de sus vidas, de sus miedos y remordimientos, y de lo que podría ser o haber sido.

Lucy Barton se está recuperando lentamente en el hospital de lo que debería haber sido una operación simple. Desde la ventana de su habitación, en pleno centro de Manhattan, el edificio Chrysler se ilumina cada noche marcando el paso del tiempo, que avanza lento. Su madre, con quien no ha hablado en muchos años, viene a verla. Las dos mujeres pasarán unos días juntas, entre silencios y pequeños chismes sobre las vidas de personas que Lucy dejó atrás hace tiempo al irse de casa para perseguir su sueño de ser escritora en la gran ciudad.

Lucy is uprooted from her life in New York City and reluctantly goes into lockdown with her ex-husband, William, in a house on the coast of Maine. Strout's new novel is a miraculous work of fiction. A brilliantly sharp evocation of the period we have just lived through, it is a novel that both resonates deeply and consoles us, too.

Inesperadamente, Lucy Barton se convierte en confidente y apoyo de William, su exmarido, el hombre con el que ha tenido dos hijas ya adultas, pero que ahora es casi un desconocido presa de terrores nocturnos y empecinado en desvelar el secreto de su madre.

Lucy Bartons ("Alles ist möglich", "Die langen Abende") Erinnerungen an ihren ersten Ehemann, an Verlust und lebenslange Verbundenheit. Lucy Barton erzählt von der komplexen und innigen Beziehung zu ihrem ersten Mann William, der ihr auch nach der Scheidung Vertrauter und Freund blieb. Mit ihm wurde sie erwachsen, mit ihm bekam sie zwei Töchter, erlebte aber auch das schmerzvolle Ende ihrer Ehe. Beide bauten sich ein neues Leben mit anderen Menschen auf und blieben doch jahrzehntelang miteinander verbunden.

Another day! And then another and another and another. It seemed as if it would all go on forever in that exquisitely boring and beautiful way. But of course it wouldn’t; everyone knows that. In this collection, Hilma Wolitzer invites us inside the private world of domestic bliss, seen mostly through the lens of Paulie and Howard’s gloriously ordinary marriage. From hasty weddings to meddlesome neighbours and ex-wives who just won’t leave, Wolitzer captures the tensions, contradictions and unexpected detours of daily life with wit, candour and an acutely observant eye.

Elizabeth Strouts ikoniske og elskede karakter fra Olive Kitteridge er tilbage i denne selvstændige efterfølger, Olive, igen. Som alderdommen nærmer sig, ændrer Olives liv sig. Hun ser frem mod et liv uden sin man Henry, med den ensomhed, som alderdommen kan føre med sig, men også med den nye, spirende kærlighed, som hendes nye livssituation giver grobund for. Gennem tretten historier følger vi Olives forsøg på at forstå sig selv, sin nye situation og de mennesker, der omgiver hende.

Olive er hverken den ideelle hustru, mor eller ven. Hun er modsat sin mand, den godhjertede Henry, sådan én man slår sig på: kontant, ikke bange for at sige sandheden, og så skåner hun på ingen måde andre for sine humørsvingninger. Men mest af alt er hun menneskelig - på en måde, der gør det svært ikke at holde af hende. Gennem tretten historier med den pensionerede skolelærer Olive som bindeled giver Olive Kitteridge indblik i livet i den lille by Crosby i Maine og tager os med ind bag facaden på en kvinde, der på sin egen kantede facon hele tiden forsøger at blive et bedre menneske.

Lucy Barton is a successful writer living in New York, navigating the second half of her life as a recent widow and parent to two adult daughters. A surprise encounter leads her to reconnect with William, her first husband—and longtime, on-again-off-again friend and confidante. Recalling their college years, the birth of their daughters, the painful dissolution of their marriage, and the lives they built with other people, Strout weaves a portrait, stunning in its subtlety, of a decades-long partnership.

The stories in this volume, selected by Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout, are tales of families trying to heal their wounds, save their marriages, and rescue their children. In "Ralph the Duck," a security guard struggles to hang on to his marriage. In "Name the Name," a traveling teacher attends to students outside the school, including his own son, locked in a country jail. In Busch's work, we are reminded that we have no idea what goes on behind closed doors or in the mind of another.