# Oh William! - Hardcover

by **Elizabeth Strout** (Author)

**_NEW YORK TIMES_ BESTSELLER - 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.  
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**BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST - ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Maureen Corrigan, NPR's _Fresh Air_**  
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"Elizabeth Strout is one of my very favorite writers, so the fact that _Oh William!_ may well be my favorite of her books is a mathematical equation for joy. The depth, complexity, and love contained in these pages is a miraculous achievement."--Ann Patchett, author of _The Dutch House_**

_I would like to say a few things about my first husband, William.  
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Lucy Barton is a writer, but her ex-husband, William, remains a hard man to read. _William_, she confesses, _has always been a mystery to me_. Another mystery is why the two have remained connected after all these years. They just are.

So Lucy is both surprised and not surprised when William asks her to join him on a trip to investigate a recently uncovered family secret--one of those secrets that rearrange everything we think we know about the people closest to us. What happens next is nothing less than another example of what Hilary Mantel has called Elizabeth Strout's "perfect attunement to the human condition." There are fears and insecurities, simple joys and acts of tenderness, and revelations about affairs and other spouses, parents and their children. On every page of this exquisite novel we learn more about the quiet forces that hold us together--even after we've grown apart.

At the heart of this story is the indomitable voice of Lucy Barton, who offers a profound, lasting reflection on the very nature of existence. "This is the way of life," Lucy says: "the many things we do not know until it is too late."

**ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: _The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, Time, Vulture, She Reads_**

### Author Biography

**Elizabeth Strout** is the #1 _New York Times_ bestselling author of _Olive, Again_; _Anything Is Possible_, winner of the Story Prize; _My Name Is Lucy Barton_; _The Burgess Boys_; _Olive Kitteridge_, for which she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize; _Abide with Me_; and _Amy and Isabelle_, winner of the _Los Angeles Times_ Art Seidenbaum Award 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:** 256

**Dimensions:** 1.1 x 8.19 x 5.75 IN

**Publication Date:** October 19, 2021

**Award:** Man Booker Prize (2022)

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