Books by Elizabeth Strout
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review 1: The plot meandered and kept me interested throughout. Two things bugged me: adding "ness" to make up cutesy words; and saying that the brother earned academic scholarships to Harvard. This is the second book I read this week with this inaccuracy. Ivy League schools do not offer m...
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review 1: Oh, bummer. This collection wasn't much to my taste, though there were a few highlights: I liked "Malaria", by Michael Byers, and "Horned Men", by Karl Taro Greenfeld, and the bizarre, Bridget-Jones-esque "Semplica-Girl Diaries" by George Saunders (I know, what a shock). Some of ...
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review 1: Elizabeth Strout sets her latest novel in the fictitious small town of Shirley Falls, Maine, the town that “the Burgess boys” escaped as soon as they could to live in New York City, the antithesis of their small-minded, claustrophobic home town. Two rather shocking acts connect t...