Unbelievably good! Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. It wasn't. We’d love your help. The have affected her throughout her life, but she has survived and in some ways thrived, wounded. Refresh and try again. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of, “It interests me how we find ways to feel superior to another person, another group of people. Many many questions that may haunt me for months to come. Find books like My Name Is Lucy Barton from the world’s largest community of readers. Start by marking “My Name Is Lucy Barton (Dramatic Production)” as Want to Read: Error rating book. Her husband has called. It wasn't - especially when you consider that this isn't just supposed to be an accurate rendition of Lucy's mother, but a version of what Lucy hears and remembers. This book is not yet featured on Listopia. The thoughts that Lucy shares are so realistic and believable. I very much admired Elizabeth Strout's novel "Olive Kittridge," so was drawn to this title since it's been on the best seller list the last few weeks. In “My Name is Lucy Barton” the reader gets a glimpse into the past and gains insight into the complicated relationship between a mother and her daughter. Her Dad was in WWII and could not abide Germans and her Mother took her Father’s side. I think I'm hovering around 3.5! I mention this only to show how many things the mind cannot will itself to do, even if it wants to.”, “This must be the way most of us maneuver through the world, half knowing, half not, visited by memories that can’t possibly be true.”, “No one in this world comes from nothing.”, “I kept thinking how the five of us had had a really unhealthy family, but I saw then too how our roots were twisted so tenaciously around one another’s hearts.”, “I have sometimes been sad that Tennessee Williams wrote that line for Blanche DuBois, "I have always depended on the kindness of strangers." Start by marking “My Name Is Lucy Barton: A Novel by Elizabeth Strout | Summary & Highlights” as Want to Read: Error rating book. So much of life seems speculation.”, “Sarah Payne, the day she told us to go to the page without judgment, reminded us that we never knew, and never would know, what it would be like to understand another person fully.”, “I took myself—secretly, secretly—very seriously! Quotes By Elizabeth Strout. Laura Linney does a fantastic performance, and I know some people have thought the mother's accent is a little over the top. Sometimes I feel like I actually know her characters, and in this case, although Lucy's life situations were very different from mine, I found myself identifying with her on many levels. My only small criticism was the way she voiced the mother. 'The Office of Historical Corrections' and the Power of the Short Story. by Level Press. Help!!!!! I was fascinated when I learned that it was being turned into a play starring Laura Linney playing both Lucy Barton and her mother. Linney gave the mother's voice so much nasality that it was usually over the top and distracting. She has written plays for theatre, radio, and television. While I was looking forward to reading a book that was supposed to give some insights into the character's relationships with her own mother, husband, daughter, etc., I didn't come up with anything! Her husband has called her mother to come and be with her while he looks after their two children. I do this, I think, because it could be me a great deal of the time.”, “My more tenderhearted daughter, Becka, said to me during this time, “Mom, when you write a novel you get to rewrite it, but when you live with someone for twenty years, that is the novel, and you can never write that novel with anyone again!”, “... and that was when I learned that work gets done if you simply do it.”, “There are times now, and my life has changed so completely, that I think back on the early years and I find myself thinking: It was not that bad. Many of us have been saved many times by the kindness of strangers, but after a while it sounds trite, like a bumper sticker. the story was good and well written I was just disappointed to see that it was less than two hundred pages many of which were half white space. But I think I know so well the pain we children clutch to our chests, how it lasts our whole lifetime, with longings so large you can't even weep. There are no discussion topics on this book yet. You have only one.”, “Then I understood I would never marry him. I didn’t know how hard it would be. I grew up in central Indiana so I have some feeling for the accents of the middlewest. Written in simple strong language, short "chapters", and comparisons with other people in her life and how they affected her with what seems her quest for emotional closeness to others.
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