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Anything is possible

Strout, Elizabeth. (Author). Farr, Kimberly, (narrator.).

Summary: A collection of stories Elizabeth Strout's world of Lucy Barton. The "Pretty Nicely Girls," now adults: One trades self-respect for a wealthy husband, the other finds in the pages of a book a kindred spirit who changes her life. Tommy, the janitor at the local high school, has his faith tested in an encounter with an emotionally isolated man he has come to help; a Vietnam veteran suffering from PTSD discovers unexpected solace in the company of a lonely innkeeper; and Lucy Barton's sister, Vicky, struggling with feelings of abandonment and jealousy, nonetheless comes to Lucy's aid, ratifying the deepest bonds of family.With the stylistic brilliance and subtle power that distinguish the work of this great writer, Elizabeth Strout has created another transcendent work of fiction, with characters who will live in readers' imaginations long after the final page is turned.

Record details

  • ISBN: 1524774901
  • ISBN: 9781524774905
  • ISBN: 9781524774929
  • ISBN: 1524774928
  • Physical Description: sound disc
    7 audio discs (8 1/2 hr.) ; 4 3/4 in.
  • Edition: Unabridged.
  • Publisher: [New York] : Random House Audio, [2017]
  • Distributor: [Ashland, Oregon] : Blackstone Publishing, [2017]

Content descriptions

General Note:
Title from disc label.
Formatted Contents Note: The Sign -- Windmills -- Cracked -- The hit-thumb theory -- Mississippi Mary -- Sister -- Dottie's bed & breakfast -- Snow-blind -- Gift.
Participant or Performer Note: Read by Kimberly Farr.
Subject: Mothers and daughters Fiction
Brothers and sisters Fiction
Families Fiction
Genre: Audiobooks.
Short stories.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Kirtland Community College.

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Syndetic Solutions - Author Notes for ISBN Number 1524774901
Anything Is Possible : A Novel
Anything Is Possible : A Novel
by Strout, Elizabeth; Farr, Kimberly (Read by)
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Author Notes

Anything Is Possible : A Novel

Elizabeth Strout (born January 6, 1956) is an American author of fiction. She was born in Portland, Maine. After graduating from Bates College, she spent a year in Oxford, England. In 1982 she graduated with honors, and received both a law degree from the Syracuse University College of Law and a Certificate of Gerontology from the Syracuse School of Social Work. Strout wrote Amy and Isabelle over the course of six or seven years, which when published was shortlisted for the 2000 Orange Prize and nominated for the 2000 PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction. Amy and Isabelle was made into a television movie starring Elisabeth Shue and was produced by Oprah Winfrey's studio, Harpo Films. Strout was a NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities) professor at Colgate University during the Fall Semester of 2007, where she taught creative writing. She was also on the faculty of the MFA program at Queens University of Charlotte in Charlotte, North Carolina. In 2009 Strout was honored with a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for Olive Kitteridge, a collection of connected short stories she wrote about a woman and her immediate family who lived on the coast of Maine. Strout also wrote The Burgess Boys in 2013 which made The New York Times Best Seller List. Ms. Strout's title, My name is Lucy Barton, made the New York Times Best Seller List in 2016. Her newest title, Anything is Possible (2017), won the 2018 Story Prize. (Bowker Author Biography)

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