Elizabeth Strout Volgorde van de boeken

»Wer Elizabeth Strout einmal gelesen hat, will weiterlesen.« FAZ Der SPIEGEL-Bestseller der Pulitzer-Preisträgerin - erstmals im Taschenbuch. »Welch eine Gnade, dass wir nicht wissen, was uns im Leben erwartet.« Elizabeth Strout schreibt die Geschichte von Lucy Barton weiter, ihrer feinsinnigen, von den Härten des Lebens nicht immer verschonten Heldin. Mit ihrem Ex-Mann William sucht sie während des Lockdowns Zuflucht in Maine, in einem alten Haus am Meer. Eine unvergessliche Geschichte über Familie und Freundschaft, die Zerbrechlichkeit unserer Existenz und die Hoffnung, die uns am Leben erhält, selbst wenn die Welt aus den Fugen gerät. Sie hatte es so wenig kommen sehen wie die meisten. Lucy Barton, erfolgreiche Schriftstellerin und Mutter zweier erwachsener Töchter, erhält im März 2020 einen Anruf von ihrem Ex-Mann - und immer noch besten Freund - William. Er bittet sie, ihren Koffer zu packen und mit ihm New York zu verlassen. In Maine hat er für sie beide ein Küstenhaus gemietet, auf einer abgelegenen Landzunge, weit weg von allem. Nur für ein paar Wochen wollen sie anfangs dort sein. Doch aus Wochen werden Monate, in denen Lucy und William und ihre komplizierte Vergangenheit zusammen sind in dem einsamen Haus am Meer.

Set against the backdrop of autumn in Maine, a town lawyer finds himself intertwined in a murder case while forging a deep friendship with acclaimed writer Lucy Barton. As they share walks and discuss their fears and regrets, Lucy connects with the iconic Olive Kitteridge, now in a retirement community. Their afternoons together are filled with storytelling, exploring the lives of those around them, which Olive refers to as "unrecorded lives," ultimately giving new meaning to their experiences and relationships.

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, ex-wives who just won't leave, to sleepless nights spent worrying about unanswered chainmail, Wolitzer captures the tensions, contradictions and unexpected detours of daily life with wit, candour and an acutely observant eye

As a panicked world goes into lockdown in March 2020, 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. She expected to be back in a week or two. Weeks turn into moths, and it's just Lucy, William, and their complex past together in a little house nestled against the moody, swirling sea

Lucy Barton is a writer, but her ex-husband, William, remains a hard man to read. 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

Przystojny, inteligentny, dowcipny i... bezdomny. Nagle niewidzialny dla świata. Jak to się mogło stać…? Łatwiej niż ci się wydaje! „Człowiek, a nie człowiek” to powieść o dramacie jednostki, olbrzymiej roli przypadku w życiu, a także o współczesnym świecie, w którym „wszystko jest znane, lecz nic nie jest rozumiane”, jak w książce pt. „Miłość” pisała Toni Morrison. Markijan Sowa, pół Polak, pół Ukrainiec, zbiegiem kilku nieprzychylnych okoliczności zostaje bezdomnym i zamieszkuje na dworcu kolejowym w Gliwicach. Otacza go wielu, lecz nikt nie jest w stanie – lub nie chce – mu pomóc. Świat biegnie swoim torem, wkraczając w ogromne procesy, które znamy już z historii, media plują papką, ludzie pędzą przed siebie na oślep, a Markijan Sowa dryfując ku zagładzie, tęskni do, najmniejszego choćby, „cienia nadziei”.

An extraordinary new novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Number One New York Times bestselling author of Olive Kitteridge and My Name is Lucy Barton 'A superbly gifted storyteller and a craftswoman in a league of her own' Hilary Mantel Olive, Again follows the blunt, contradictory yet deeply loveable 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. 'A powerful storyteller immersed in the nuances of human relationships' Observer 'She gets better with each book' Maggie O'Farrell 'One of America's finest writers' Sunday Times

Short story collection Anything Is Possible explores the whole range of human emotion through the intimate dramas of people struggling to understand themselves and others. Here are two sisters: one trades self-respect for a wealthy husband while the other finds in the pages of a book a kindred spirit who changes her life. The janitor at the local school has his faith tested in an encounter with an isolated man he has come to help; a grown daughter longs for mother love even as she comes to accept her mother’s happiness in a foreign country; and the adult Lucy Barton (the heroine of My Name Is Lucy Barton) returns to visit her siblings after seventeen years of absence.