{"title":"Elizabeth Strout","description":"Elizabeth Strout is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Lucy by the Sea; Oh William!,  which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize; Olive, Again; Anything Is Possible, winner of the Story Prize; My Name Is Lucy Barton; The Burgess Boys; Olive Kitteridge, winner of the Pulitzer Prize; Abide with Me; and Amy and Isabelle,  winner of 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 in London. She lives in Maine.","products":[{"product_id":"tell-me-everything-oprahs-book-club-paperback","title":"Tell Me Everything: Oprah's Book Club - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER - OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK - From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Elizabeth Strout comes a \u003cb\u003e\"stunner\" (\u003ci\u003ePeople\u003c\/i\u003e) of a novel \u003c\/b\u003eabout new friendships, old loves, and the very human desire to leave a mark on the world.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eTell Me Everything \u003c\/i\u003ehits like a bucolic fable. . . . A novel of moods, how they govern our personal lives and public spaces, reflected in Strout's shimmering technique.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION - A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: \u003ci\u003eTime, \u003c\/i\u003eNPR, \u003ci\u003eVogue, Parade\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith 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 \u003ci\u003emean\u003c\/i\u003e?\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt's autumn in Maine, and the town lawyer Bob Burgess has become enmeshed in an unfolding murder investigation, defending a lonely, isolated man accused of killing his mother. He has also fallen into a deep and abiding friendship with the acclaimed writer Lucy Barton, who lives down the road in a house by the sea with her ex-husband, William. Together, Lucy and Bob go on walks and talk about their lives, their fears and regrets, and what might have been. Lucy, meanwhile, is finally introduced to the iconic Olive Kitteridge, now living in a retirement community on the edge of town. They spend afternoons together in Olive's apartment, telling each other stories. Stories about people they have known--\"unrecorded lives,\" Olive calls them--reanimating them, and, in the process, imbuing their lives with meaning. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBrimming with empathy and pathos, \u003ci\u003eTell Me Everything\u003c\/i\u003e is Elizabeth Strout operating at the height of her powers, illuminating the ways in which our relationships keep us afloat. As Lucy says, \"Love comes in so many different forms, but it is always love.\"","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101178302687,"sku":"9780593446119","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/gfyUMbs9Qk9780593446119.webp?v=1781068413"},{"product_id":"the-things-we-never-say-hardcover","title":"The Things We Never Say - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePulitzer Prize-winning, #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author Elizabeth Strout's new novel tells the story of a chance incident that sparks a powerful realization in a beloved teacher's life--a poignant meditation on loneliness, friendship, parenthood, and the importance of truth in a capsizing world\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eArtie Dam is living a double life. He spends his days teaching history to eleventh graders, expanding their young minds, correcting their casual cruelties, and lending a kind word to those who need it most. He goes to holiday parties with his wife of three decades, makes small talk with neighbors, and, on weekends, takes his sailboat out on the beautiful Massachusetts Bay. He is, by all appearances, present and alive. But inside, Artie is plagued by feelings of isolation. He looks out at a world gone mad--at himself and the people around him--and turns a question over and over in his mind: How is it that we know so little about one another, even those closest to us? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnd then, one day, Artie learns that life has been keeping a secret from him, one that threatens to upend his entire world. Once he learns it, he is forced to chart a new course, to reconsider the relationships he holds most dear--and to make peace with the mysteries at the heart of our existence. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eElizabeth Strout, as we have come to expect, delivers a moving exploration of the human condition--one that brims with compassion for each and every one of her indelible characters. With exquisite prose and profound insight, \u003ci\u003eThe Things We Never Say \u003c\/i\u003etakes one man's fears and loneliness and makes them universal. And in the same breath, captures the abiding love that sustains and holds us all.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101856633055,"sku":"9798217154746","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/VmF8ZnS-ze9798217154746.webp?v=1781075771"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/elizabeth-strout.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}