# Lucy by the Sea - Hardcover

by **Elizabeth Strout** (Author)

****_NEW YORK TIMES_ BESTSELLER - From Pulitzer Prize-winning 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.****

**"Strout's understanding of the human condition is capacious."--NPR**  
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ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: _The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, Oprah Daily, Entertainment Weekly, San Francisco Chronicle,_ NPR, _Time, The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, PopSugar, She Reads_**

With her trademark spare, crystalline prose--a voice infused with "intimate, fragile, desperate humanness" (_The Washington Post_)--Elizabeth Strout turns her exquisitely tuned eye to the inner workings of the human heart, following the indomitable heroine of _My Name Is Lucy Barton_ through the early days of the pandemic.

As a panicked world goes into lockdown, Lucy Barton is uprooted from her life in Manhattan and bundled away to a small town in Maine by her ex-husband and on-again, off-again friend, William. For the next several months, it's just Lucy, William, and their complex past together in a little house nestled against the moody, swirling sea.

Rich with empathy and emotion, _Lucy by the Sea_ vividly captures the fear and struggles that come with isolation, as well as the hope, peace, and possibilities that those long, quiet days can inspire. At the heart of this story are the deep human connections that unite us even when we're apart--the pain of a beloved daughter's suffering, the emptiness that comes from the death of a loved one, the promise of a new friendship, and the comfort of an old, enduring love.

**Shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize**

### Author Biography

**Elizabeth Strout** is the #1 _New York Times_ bestselling author of _Lucy by the Sea; Oh William!; Olive, Again; Anything Is Possible,_ winner of the Story Prize; _My Name Is Lucy Barton; The Burgess Boys; Olive Kitteridge,_ winner of the Pulitzer Prize; _Abide with Me;_ and _Amy and Isabelle,_ winner of the _Los Angeles Times_ Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and the _Chicago Tribune_ Heartland Prize. She has also been a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize in London. She lives in Maine.

**Number of Pages:** 304

**Dimensions:** 1.09 x 8.45 x 5.81 IN

**Publication Date:** September 20, 2022

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