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Cargando... Lucy by the sea : a novel (2022 original; edición 2022)por Elizabeth Strout
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Since reading this book, I've talked about it many times. It is small in scope, taking place during the pandemic and playing with the passage of time in a way I deeply enjoyed. I have been craving books that deal with the communal and global experience of Covid-19, and this book dealt with the loneliness and forms of new intimacy created during isolation. SPOILERS: There were two moments that most astonished me with how well they were crafted. The first was when Lucy's brother died after contracting Covid-19 at her conservative and religious sister's Thanksgiving celebration. The struggle of getting her sister to understand how bad Covid-19 was (while remaining isolated from much of the knowledge herself) depicted without being heavy-handed the deep rifts in our country as they most often express themselves. The second was when Lucy met with her daughters for the third time after they all went into isolation. Dealing with the mechanics of the end of quarantine and revisiting New York City, so different from how she remembered it, she is confronted by how her decision to reunite with her daughter's father has bothered them. While Lucy moved in with him at the start of the pandemic, everyone understood it to be about safety and convenience. Once her daughters learned she'd resumed a romantic and sexual relationship with their dad, they worried he had manipulated her by arranging the situation. Lucy doesn't engage with this as they hoped, ultimately admitting that she doesn't know if that's true or not but that she's happy with her life. That moment deeply underscored the realities of living an often unextraordinary life in extraordinary circumstances. The book as a whole allowed for the contradictions many people left behind when we could resume business as usual and leave behind our new normal. The 4th book about Lucy Barton, and this one is set during the Covid pandemic. Reading it at this distance - 4 years seems a long time but its still pretty fresh in the memory - made me feel a little peculiar, so many small details are captured about the early days of the pandemic that I've blanked out of my memory. The fear, panic, strange behaviour. This book also sees Lucy and William deepen their relationship and try to do their best by their family during these difficult times. Its very thoughtful and straightforward. I really love how Elizabeth Strout writes. Lucy Barton returns in this fourth edition to the Amgash series, Lucy reflects on the virus which resulted in a pandemic. She thinks about how this unexpected event was scary and created a lot of uncertainty. People were wearing masks and needing to maintain “social distancing” from others. It was such a reminder of the Flu Epidemic in 1918. Although William is her ex-husband, he has always remained her closest friend. He takes her to a house on the Maine coast to help alleviate her worries. Everyone needed to “lock down” where they were to avoid transmission or vulnerability to the virus. All this together time provides a unique opportunity to reminisce on the past both good and bad such as their kids and infidelities. They discussed people in their lives over the years and how far they have come from meager beginnings. Together they conclude how their lives have changed over the years and their shared memories sustain their continued connection. No real plot here – just a couple of years in the life of an older writer/mom (Lucy) who relocates from New York City to the coast of Maine during the pandemic and, while there, works through the process of grieving for her recently deceased husband, reconciling with an ex-husband, redefining herself as a mother, refocusing her priorities, and reflecting on the extent to which our lives are controlled by free will vs. predetermination. The tale spans the scary first days of the pandemic through the George Floyd riots and the Capital insurrection, wrapping up just as vaccines are becoming widely available. The various subplots are united by one common theme: Everyone needs to feel like they matter. Wives need to feel heard by their husbands, lovers need to feel valued by their inamoratas, parents need to feel needed by their children, scholars need to feel appreciated for their expertise, writers need to feel worthy by their readers, all the disenfranchised folks of the world - blacks, MAGAs, poor people, etc. - need to feel heard by … someone. Otherwise, the world fills with angry, lonely, betrayed people. Just so you don’t miss the point Strout’s trying to make, almost every episode concludes with someone uttering some version of “I understand.” This was my first book by Strout, so it’s hard for me to say how much context I missed out on because I hadn’t read the author’s My Name is Lucy Barton or Olive Kitteridge, both of which are extensively referenced here. Also impossible for me to know whether the narrative voice she adopts here – childlike, and naïve – is specific to Lucy or a Strout signature. Admit that it was hard to regard protagonist Barton as a prestigious novelist given her unsophisticated language (for example, referring to a speaker a “the lecturing man”), grammar, and prose. Am guessing Stroud’s intent is to invite us into the tale by lowering any bars that more sophisticated prose might erect – everyday language for an everyday tale about everyday themes, like loneliness, regret, grief, and love. Mostly worked for me: I found this to be graceful and unconventional, though perhaps not something I’ll remember a year from now.
The disarming situation described at the opening of Elizabeth Strout’s new novel might seem fantastical, the stuff of a million post-apocalyptic movies, were it not for the fact that every single one of us has recently lived through it. And lockdown especially. Strout isn’t the first writer to go there, but she certainly makes magnificent and thrilling use of it in this, her most nuanced – and intensely moving – Lucy Barton novel yet Pertenece a las seriesLucy Barton (4) Pertenece a las series editorialesKeltainen kirjasto (538) Mirmanda (232) PremiosDistincionesListas de sobresalientes
UNO DE LOS MEJORES LIBROS DEL A O SEG N THE NEW YORK TIMES REVIEW OF BOOKS , THE NEW YORKER Y TIME , ENTRE OTROS. Vuelve la icn?ica Lucy Barton en esta deslumbrante novela sobre el amor, la p?dida y la esperanza. Cuando el miedo se va apoderando de la ciudad, Lucy Barton abandona Manhattan y se confina en un pueblo de Maine con su exmarido, William. Durante los siguientes meses quedar? ellos dos, compa?ros despu de tantos a?s, a solas con su complejo pasado en una peque? casa junto a un mar impetuoso, una experiencia de la que saldr? transformados. Con una voz imbuida de una ?humanidad n?tima, frg?il y desesperada ( The Washington Post ) Elizabeth Strout explora los entresijos del corazn? humano en un retrato revolucionario y luminoso de las relaciones personales durante un periodo de aislamiento. En el centro de esta historia se encuentran los profundos lazos que nos unen incluso cuando estamos separados: el dolor ante el sufrimiento de una hija, el vaco? tras la muerte de un ser querido, la promesa de una amistad incipiente y el consuelo de un antiguo amor que an? perdura. La crt?ica ha dicho: ?Qu ?fc?il parece el estilo de Strout, tan coloquial, lleno de interpelaciones al lector, de conversaciones, de acotaciones. [...] Una novela estupenda . Carmen de Pascual, El Mundo ( La Lectura ) ?Una novela deliciosa. [...] La narracin? transcurre en un tono de confidencia y espontaneidad, como si fuera una conversacin? entre amigas . Mey Zamora, La Vanguardia ?Una escritora elegante, eficiente y de alta sensibilidad: un seguro para cualquier lector exigente . Jose Mara? Guelbenzu, Babelia ?[Strout] repliega hacia dentro su prosa, que, transparente y coloquial, se presta con ms? naturalidad al autoanl?isis y a la indagacin? en el pasado. [...] Una ms? de la familia . Sergi S?chez, El Perid?ico ?Hay algo intangible en la literatura de Elizabeth Strout que nos lleva irremisiblemente a esa zona ms? n?tima por antonomasia de nosotros mismos. [...] Y siempre, siempre, Strout lo narra con una sencillez y sensibilidad exquisitas, que hace que nos sintamos ipso facto en conexin? directa con el sentir de sus personajes, y que incluso lleguemos a amarlos, a despreciarlos, a perdonarlos... ?Ay, Elizabeth Strout, cu?ta sensibilidad tiene su literatura! . Natalio Blanco, Diario16 ?Esta mujer que tanto me ha dado llenando mis horas de insomnio . Elvira Lindo ?No es casualidad que Strout haya sido comparada con Hemingway. En muchos sentidos, lo supera . Publishers Weekly ?Un retrato revolucionario y luminoso de las relaciones personales . Forbes (Libro de la semana) ?No solo he amado Lucy y el mar : la necesitaba . The Boston Globe ?Delicada y elp?tica. [...] Una prosa elegante y enga?samente ligera . The New York Times Book Review ?Lo ms? valioso de Elizabeth Strout es la sutileza con que explora los recovecos de la condicin? humana . Fernando Aramburu ?Es fc?il comparar el mundo literario de Elizabeth Strout con el de Alice Munro o Lucia Berlin . Pedro Antonio Lp?ez Gayarre, El Espa?l ?Un libro fino, bellamente comedido y que estalla con emocin? . Vogue ?Con Lucy Barton, Strout contina? extrayendo agua de un pozo profundo . Publishers Weekly. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Lucy's curiosity moves the book along and makes her a believable narrator. Fourth in the series, I missed a couple of the books but that did not hamper my enjoyment of this well crafted story. ( )