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Cargando... Lucy by the Sea (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. 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. All about Lucy and her feelings and discoveries about herself and those close to her during the beginning of COVID. Her thoughts appear disjointed and just seem to occur to her. A melancholy book that also exudes hope. Kirkus: Lucy Barton flees pandemic-stricken New York City for Maine with ex-husband William.This is the third time Lucy has chronicled the events and emotions that shape her life, and the voice that was so fresh and specific in My Name Is Lucy Barton (2016), already sounding rather tired in Oh, William! (2021), is positively worn out here. Fatigue and disorientation are natural responses to a cataclysmic upheaval like the coronavirus, but unfortunately, it?s Strout?s imagination that seems exhausted in this meandering tale, which follows Lucy and William to Maine, relates their experiences there in haphazard fashion, and closes with their return to New York. Within this broad story arc, Lucy?s narration rambles from topic to topic: her newfound closeness with William; his unfaithfulness when they were married; their two daughters? marital and health issues; her growing friendship with Bob Burgess; the surprise reappearance of William?s half sister, Lois; and memories of Lucy?s impoverished childhood, troubled relations with her parents, and ongoing difficulties with her sister, Vicky. To readers of Strout?s previous books, it?s all unduly familiar, indeed stale, an impression reinforced when the author takes a searing emotional turning point from The Burgess Boys (2013) and a painful refusal of connection in Oh William! and recycles them as peripheral plot points. The novel?s early pages do nicely capture the sense of disbelief so many felt in the pandemic?s early days, but Lucy?s view from rural safety of the havoc wrought in New York feels superficial and possibly offensive. Strout?s characteristic acuity about complex human relationships returns in a final scene between Lucy and her daughters, but from a writer of such abundant gifts and past accomplishments, this has to be rated a disappointment.Not the kind of deep, resonant fiction we expect from the Pulitzer Prize?winning author of Olive Kitteridge. As the pandemic begins, William calls Lucy, tells her to pack a suitcase, and the two head out of New York City to Maine to be safer during the pandemic. They rent a home on the coast. Readers who went through the pandemic will relate to many of their experiences in the early days of the pandemic. It goes on to explore the lives of their daughters and more. While Lucy sees many of the same flaws in William he had during their marriage, as a maturer person, she sees another side to him as well. The book shows the importance of family and friendship even in a time of social isolation. I believe Strout could have included the plot elements in the story of Lucy's sister and Charlene without the commentary on Evangelicalism insinuated by her wording. At least she was less overt than many authors in their prejudice against conservatives. Strout's writing excellence shines in this novel. Olive Kitteridge is known and discussed by one character. While many people do not want to read about the pandemic, I am glad I read this one.
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) 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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