Tell Me Everything: Oprah's Book Club Tell Me Everything: Oprah's Book Club

Tell Me Everything: Oprah's Book Club

A Novel

    • 4.2 • 774 Ratings
    • $14.99

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

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Time, NPR, Vogue, Parade

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.”

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2024
September 10
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
352
Pages
PUBLISHER
Random House Publishing Group
SELLER
Penguin Random House LLC
SIZE
1.4
MB

Customer Reviews

wideread ,

Slow but has depth

Always love her books, this one is more meditative

KHConde ,

Not a fast read but wonderful

Be patient and read all the wonderful stories of love. Fascinating but I struggled to stay with it. Be steadfast persevere and there is hope in love

ceg132 ,

Aggravating

I’ve enjoyed Ms Strout’s conversational style and gentle but straightforward depictions of Maine and it’s unique characters in previous works. But this was an aggravating disappointment. I was exasperated with the characters’ adolescent self absorption and infatuations. If they’d focused a modicum of their energy and thought on their spouses instead of themselves and their seemingly vital relationships their marriages would have been much richer. And their neighborly efforts to appear to themselves and others to “do good” did not alleviate their angst or my irritation.

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