Elizabeth Strout is the Pulitzer prize-winning author of Olive Kitteridge, as well as The Burgess Boys, a New York Times bestseller, Abide With Me and Amy and Isabelle, which won the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize. She has also been a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize. She lives in Portland, Maine.
One proof of Elizabeth Strout's greatness is the sleight of hand
with which she injects sneaky subterranean power into seemingly
transparent prose. Strout works in the realm of everyday speech,
conjuring repetitions, gaps and awkwardness with plain language and
forthright diction, yet at the same time unleashing a tidal urgency
that seems to come out of nowhere even as it operates in plain
sight
*New York Times*
Strout is not only mercilessly funny on the page, she's also
unerringly precise about the long-term effects of loneliness,
parental neglect and betrayal . . . The final scene between William
and Lucy has been carouselling in my mind for days now . . .
devastating and vital, bleak and tender
*Sunday Times*
What sets Strout's work apart is her characterisation . . . Long on
empathy while steering clear of sentimentality, her prose bears the
minerality of a crisp white wine, with a seeming simplicity that
belies its profound power
*FT*
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