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NATIONAL BESTSELLER. In her luminous and long-awaited novel, bestselling author Elizabeth Strout welcomes readers back to the archetypal, lovely landscape of northern New England, where the events of her first novel, Amy and Isabelle, unfolded. In the late 1950s, in the small town of West Annett,... More

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERElizabeth Strout "animates the ordinary with an astonishing force," wrote The New Yorker on the publication of her Pulitzer Prize-winning Olive Kitteridge. The San Francisco Chronicle praised Strout's "magnificent gift for humanizing characters." Now the acclaimed author ret... More

Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout explores the mysteries of marriage and the secrets we keep, as a former couple reckons with where they’ve come from—and what they’ve left behind. <P><P>I would like to say a few things about my first husband, William. Lucy Barton is a writer, but her ex-husba... More

<P>An unforgettable cast of small-town characters copes with love and loss in this new work of fiction by #1 bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout. Recalling Olive Kitteridge in its richness, structure, and complexity, Anything Is Possible explores the whole range of human em... More

#1 New York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout continues the life of her beloved Olive Kitteridge, a character who has captured the imaginations of millions <P><P>Prickly, wry, resistant to change yet ruthlessly honest and deeply empathetic, Olive Kitteridge is “a c... More

A new book by Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout is cause for celebration. Her bestselling novels, including Olive Kitteridge and The Burgess Boys, have illuminated our most tender relationships. Now, in My Name Is Lucy Barton, this extraordinary writer shows how a simple hospital visit becomes ... More

National BestsellerIn her stunning first novel, Amy and Isabelle, Elizabeth Strout evokes a teenager's alienation from her distant mother--and a parent's rage at the discovery of her daughter's sexual secrets. In most ways, Isabelle and Amy are like any mother and her 16-year-old daughter, a fierce ... More

In a voice more powerful and compassionate than ever before,New York Timesbestselling author Elizabeth Strout binds together thirteen rich, luminous narratives into a book with the heft of a novel, through the presence of one larger-than-life, unforgettable character: Olive Kitteridge. At the edge... More

From Pulitzer Prize–winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Strout comes a poignant, pitch-perfect novel about a divorced couple stuck together during lockdown—and the love, loss, despair, and hope that animate us even as the world seems to be falling apart. With her trademark spare,... More

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. Gentle gossip about people from Lucy’s childhood in Amgash, Illinois, seems to reconnect them, but just below the surface lie the tension and longin... More

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 h... More

At times stern, at other times patient, at times perceptive, at other times in sad denial, Olive Kitteridge, a retired schoolteacher, deplores the changes in her little town of Crosby, Maine, and in the world at large, but she doesn't always recognize the changes in those around her: a lounge musici... More

A selection of short stories from a twentieth-century "American master" (Dan Cryer, Newsday). A contemporary of Ann Beattie and Tobias Wolff, Frederick Busch was a master craftsman of the form; his subjects were single-event moments in so-called ordinary life. The stories in this volume, selected by... More

This edition presents Wharton's two most controversial stories, which she considered inseperable, in one volume for the first time. Set in frigid New England, both deal with sexual awakening and appetite and their devastating consequences. This text includes newly commissioned notes.From the Trade... More

"As our vision becomes more global, our storytelling is stretching in many ways. Stories increasingly change point of view, switch location, and sometimes pack as much material as a short novel might," writes guest editor Elizabeth Strout. "It's the variety of voices that most indicates the increasi... More

Now celebrating its centenary, this prestigious annual anthology gathers the twenty best new short stories published in the previous year. An Anchor Books Original.The O. Henry Prize Stories 2019--continuing a century-long tradition of cutting-edge literary excellence--contains twenty prize-winning ... More

Vencedora do Prémio Pulitzer, Elizabeth Strout é uma das escritoras americanas mais aclamadas da actualidade. Em O Meu Nome É Lucy Barton emprega a sua invulgar capacidade de observação das relações humanas para lançar luz sobre a mais basilar e complexa de todas elas - a relação entre mães e fil... More

Um retrato comovente e subtil das debilidades e das paixões humanas, pela mão de uma das mais destacas autoras americanas, vencedora do Pulitzer Prize. UM DOS MELHORES LIVROS DO ANO: The New York Times * The Guardian Lucy Barton, uma famosa escritora, volta à cidade da sua infância, em pleno Midw... More

VENCEDOR DO PULITZER PRIZE A obra mais importante e comovente de Elizabeth Strout, autora premiada de O meu nome é Lucy Barton e Tudo é possível "As vidas unem-se umas às outras como ossos e há fracturas que podem não sarar#" Em Crosby, uma pacata povoação costeira no Maine, todos conhecem Olive... More

UM DOS MELHORES LIVROS DO ANO Time * Vogue * The Washington Post * Chicago Tribune * Vanity Fair * Esquire * The Guardian * Evening Standard * Kirkus Reviews * Publishers Weekly * BookPage Elizabeth Strout dá continuidade à vida de Olive Kitteridge, uma personagem inesquecível, que arrebatou a ima... More

Elizabeth Strout, ganadora del Premio Pulitzer y el Premi Llibreter, con tres millones y medio de lectores, recupera a su icónica protagonista, Lucy Barton, en un libro del que no se sale, hermoso, doloroso, irónico y profundo como las historias de Lucia Berlin o Alice Munro. Uno de los mejores ... More

Galardoada com o Prémio Pulitzer e uma das escritoras mais empolgantes do presente, Elizabeth Strout traz-nos de volta a personagem Lucy Barton - protagonista dos romances O meu nome é Lucy Barton e Tudo é possível - e mergulha num dos grandes temas da literatura: o casamento. No regresso da perso... More

To mark its 100-year anniversary, the American Civil Liberties Union partners with award-winning authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman to bring together many of our greatest living writers, each contributing an original piece inspired by a historic ACLU case. <P><P>On January 19, 1920, a small ... More

The Engaged University is a comprehensive empirical account of the global civic engagement movement in higher education. In universities around the world, something extraordinary is underway. Mobilizing their human and intellectual resources, institutions of higher education are directly tackling co... More

With over 100 archival photographs and nine original, wide-ranging essays, Freud/Tiffany brings to life the fascinating intersection of psychoanalysis and education. Out of the cultural and political ferment of inter-war Vienna emerged the Hietzing School, founded in the 1920s by Anna Freud, the you... More