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Oh William! (Amgash, #3)

Elizabeth Strout

Start date: April 15, 2022

Finish date: May 15, 2022

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Jun 21, 2022 Jane rated it it was amazing

Shelves: family-story, psychology, marriage, womans-story

I love Elizabeth Strout's books. I've read them all...Olive Kitteridge, twice. Strout gets under the skin of her characters...who then get under ours. This is the third book in which Lucy Barton has the starring role. She is disillusioned, loving, damaged from her childhood which was punitive. She was only touched when she was beaten. Lucy survived despite the odds...a wonderful teacher showed her kindness that shifted Lucy's attitude towards people...she discovered that there were people who wo ...more

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Aug 14, 2023 Susan rated it it was amazing

Shelves: lit-crit

There are so many things to enjoy and ponder in this first-person chapter-less narrative. For every revealing insight a question or three bubbles up from the stream-of-consciousness remembrances of Lucy, a writer, about her first husband, William, a fading scientist and professor. We learn as much about Lucy as we do about William, and in the process about ways families work (or don't), the disaster our success cannot entirely hide, and the enduring but flawed quality of love. Elizabeth Strout h ...more

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