Tell Me Everything: Oprah's Book Club: A Novel (Unabridged)
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Publisher Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • From Pulitzer Prize–winning author Elizabeth Strout comes a “stunner” (People) of a novel about new friendships, old loves, and the very human desire to leave a mark on the world.
“Tell Me Everything hits like a bucolic fable. . . . A novel of moods, how they govern our personal lives and public spaces, reflected in Strout’s shimmering technique.”—The Washington Post
With her remarkable insight into the human condition and silences that contain multitudes, Elizabeth Strout returns to the town of Crosby, Maine, and to her beloved cast of characters—Lucy Barton, Olive Kitteridge, Bob Burgess, and more—as they deal with a shocking crime in their midst, fall in love and yet choose to be apart, and grapple with the question, as Lucy Barton puts it, “What does anyone’s life mean?”
It’s autumn in Maine, and the town lawyer Bob Burgess has become enmeshed in an unfolding murder investigation, defending a lonely, isolated man accused of killing his mother. He has also fallen into a deep and abiding friendship with the acclaimed writer Lucy Barton, who lives down the road in a house by the sea with her ex-husband, William. Together, Lucy and Bob go on walks and talk about their lives, their fears and regrets, and what might have been. Lucy, meanwhile, is finally introduced to the iconic Olive Kitteridge, now living in a retirement community on the edge of town. They spend afternoons together in Olive’s apartment, telling each other stories. Stories about people they have known—“unrecorded lives,” Olive calls them—reanimating them, and, in the process, imbuing their lives with meaning.
Brimming with empathy and pathos, Tell Me Everything is Elizabeth Strout operating at the height of her powers, illuminating the ways in which our relationships keep us afloat. As Lucy says, “Love comes in so many different forms, but it is always love.”
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
In Pulitzer winner Elizabeth Strout’s mystery-like novel, it’s silence that speaks the loudest. Strout’s fans will know most of the characters in Tell Me Everything from her other books, but this visit to their small, fictional Maine town stands on its own. Local lawyer Bob Burgess is working with Matthew Beach, who’s suspected of murdering his elderly mother, and that drives the mystery side of things. But it’s Bob’s relationship with writer Lucy Barton and Lucy’s budding friendship with 90-year-old Olive Kitteridge that give the book its quiet depth. Lucy and Olive share stories of sadness, fear, anger, and strength about all kinds of characters, including the extended family of their little community. Each is a worthy tale even without the murder that drives the narrative. Strout’s all about small moments instead of dramatic plot twists. Her subtlety and compassion will keep you warm even when the book dips into some truly dark, desperate moments. You’ll end up caring about all her complex characters and learning a lot about the ways people live with each other.
Customer Reviews
Tell Me Everything
The reader is all wrong for this book. She reads the sentences like she’s reading Good Night Moon to a class of kindergarteners . She reads the entire book with joyfullness and inappropriate inflection.
I bought the audio download and am about one hour into the book but I will have to putt it away. Maybe I’ll try again in few years . I just could not bare hearing anymore of Olive’s snarky reply’s being spoken to me in a sweet, lilting voice. Such a shame.
a drag
about group of 60-70 year old and their boring lives. no plot. wish i had my time back
Warm and heartfelt
I truly enjoyed this audio book! It was a bunch of little stories all wrapped up nicely into one! Lots of “Life” happenings, but the characters were all so lovely, all in their own beautiful way!