6/2/2023 0 Comments Elizabeth strout lucy bartonWhat Lucy omitted, we learn - what Lucy hid? - radically alters our understanding of what Lucy said. Where the earlier book turned on the crystalline austerity and reserve of its narrative voice, guided by Strout’s unerring sense of what Lucy would omit, the new work almost literally undoes the older one. But it’s actually something far more complex, reaching across space (think of Faulkner’s work, or Louise Erdrich’s) and through layers of memory. “Anything Is Possible” might look like a sequel, since it takes place after the action of Elizabeth Strout’s best-selling 2016 novel, “My Name Is Lucy Barton,” and portrays many of the same characters. ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE By Elizabeth Strout 254 pp.
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