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Lucy Barton

Deze serie duikt diep in de menselijke psyche en onderzoekt de complexiteit van relaties, met name die tussen moeders en dochters. Het verhaal volgt de reis van de protagonist terwijl ze traumatische herinneringen aan een moeilijke jeugd onder ogen ziet en haar eigen identiteit zoekt. Door introspectief en aangrijpend vertellen onderzoekt de serie thema's als vergeving, liefde en de voortdurende zoektocht naar waarheid in het leven en in de kunst.

Lucy by the Sea
Anything Is Possible
My name is Lucy Barton
Oh William! :

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  1. 1
    3,8(3161)Tarief

    Lucy Barton is recovering slowly from what should have been a simple operation. Her mother, to whom she hasn't spoken for many years, comes to see her and a simple hospital visit becomes a portal to the most tender relationship of all--the one between mother and daughter.

    My name is Lucy Barton
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    Anything Is Possible

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    • 9 uur lezen
    3,7(1760)Tarief

    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.

    Anything Is Possible
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    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

    Oh William! :
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    In March 2020 Lucy's ex-husband William pleads with her to leave New York and escape to a coastal house he has rented in Maine. Lucy reluctantly agrees, leaving the washing-up in the sink, expecting to be back in a week or two. Weeks turn into months, and it's just Lucy, William, and their complex past together in a little house nestled against the sea. Rich with empathy and a searing clarity, Lucy by the Sea evokes the fragility and uncertainty of the recent past, as well as the possibilities that those long, quiet days can inspire. At the heart of this miraculous novel are the deep human connections that sustain us, even as the world seems to be falling apart.

    Lucy by the Sea