Abide With Me - Brossura

Strout, Elizabeth

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ISBN 10: 0743462289 ISBN 13: 9780743462280

Casa editrice: Simon & Schuster, 2007

Riassunto

From the Man Booker Prize longlisted author of My Name is Lucy Barton Katherine is only five-years-old. Struck dumb with grief at her mother's death, it is down to her father, the heartbroken minister Tyler Caskey, to bring his daughter out of silence she has observed in the wake of the family's tragedy. But Tyler Caskey is barely surviving himself. His cold, church-assigned home is colder still since Lauren's death, and he struggles to find the right words for his sermons; struggles to be a leader to his congregation when he himself is lost. When Katherine's schoolteacher calls to discuss his daughter's anti-social behaviour, it sparks a chain of events that begins to tear down Tyler's defences. The small-town rumour-mill has much to make of Katherine's odd behaviour, and even more to say about Tyler's relationship with his housekeeper, Connie Hatch. And in Tyler's darkest hour, a startling discovery will test his congregation's humanity - and his own will to endure the kinds of trials that sooner or later test us all. From the Orange Prize-shortlisted author of Amy & Isabelle, this is a startlingly beautiful novel about love and abandonment, faith and hypocrisy; and the peril of family secrets...

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Recensione:

“It takes a writer of enormous sensitivity, discretion, and perception to limn the extremes of human nature in the artistic and economical way Elizabeth Strout has done here. Abide with Me is a journey through despair to a kind of kaleidoscopic redemption, a quietly powerful and surprising novel that resonates long after the last page is read, in part because it does what great art often does: holds up a picture that the viewer comes to see is a mirror.”
—Elizabeth Berg, author of The Year of Pleasures and We Are All Welcome Here
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“The word ‘remarkable’ plays a crucial role in Elizabeth Strout’s Abide with Me, and that word best describes the novel itself. As a story of small-town New England and one man’s pained persistent grappling with bigotry and faith, it has the ring of truth. Issues of family, of love and loss are delicately probed throughout: this is a brave, rare book.”
—Nicholas Delbanco, author of The Vagabonds and What Remains
“As somberly beautiful as a winter’s day in Maine, Abide With Me is a magnificent love story--about a father and his troubled daughter, about a husband and his sorrowing wife, about a preacher and his puzzled congregation. Elizabeth Strout is here to tell us the truth, and she does so with language that is honest, insightful, and moving. The pain she reveals is profound, and so is the balm she discovers in a small town’s deep decency. This novel will fill the emptied heart.”
—Frederick Busch
'A gracefully plotted depiction of a man in disintegration... Slow moving and subtle, this is a novel of multi-faceted characters and gradually evolving relationships. It wraps itself around the reader like a patchwork quilt...In Abide With Me, Strout has created another masterful and compelling portrait of a flawed parent-child relationship...' FINANCIAL TIMES

L'autore:

Elizabeth Strout's tenure as a lawyer (six months) was slightly longer than her career as a stand-up comedian (one night). She has also worked as a bartender, waitress and piano player at bars across the USA. She now teaches literature in New York, where she lives with her husband and daughter.

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• Editore: Simon & Schuster
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0743462289
• ISBN 13: 9780743462280
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 304