Anything Is Possible: A Novel

Anything Is Possible: A Novel

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER â€¢ An unforgettable cast of small-town characters copes with love and loss in this new work of fiction by #1 bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout.

Recalling Olive Kitteridge in its richness, structure, and complexity, Anything Is Possible explores the whole range of human emotion through the intimate dramas of people struggling to understand themselves and others.

Here are two sisters: One trades self-respect for a wealthy husband while the other finds in the pages of a book a kindred spirit who changes her life. The janitor at the local school has his faith tested in an encounter with an isolated man he has come to help; a grown daughter longs for mother love even as she comes to accept her motherâ€™s happiness in a foreign country; and the adult Lucy Barton (the heroine of My Name Is Lucy Barton, the authorâ€™s celebrated New York Times bestseller) returns to visit her siblings after seventeen years of absence.

Reverberating with the deep bonds of family, and the hope that comes with reconciliation, Anything Is Possible again underscores Elizabeth Stroutâ€™s place as one of Americaâ€™s most respected and cherished authors.

Praise for Anything Is Possible

â€œWhen Elizabeth Strout is on her game, is there anybody better? . . . This is a generous, wry book aboutÂ everydayÂ lives, and Strout crawls so far inside her characters you feel you inhabit them. . . . This is a book that earns its title. Try reading it without tears, or wonder.â€â€”USA Today (four stars)

â€œReaders who lovedÂ My Name Is Lucy Barton . . . are in for a real treat. . . . Strout is a master of the story cycle form. . . . Â She paints cumulative portraits of the heartache and soul of small-town America by giving each of her characters a turn under her sympathetic spotlight.â€â€”NPR

â€œThese stories return Strout to the core of what she does more magnanimously than anyone else, which is to render quiet portraits of the indignities and disappointments of normal life, and the moments of grace and kindness we are gifted in response. . . . Strout hits the target yet again.â€â€”The Washington Post

â€œIn this wise and accomplished book, pain and healing exist in perpetual dependence, like feuding siblings.â€â€”The Wall Street Journal

â€œAnything Is Possible confirms Strout as one of our most grace-filled, and graceful, writers.â€â€”The Boston Globe

â€œIn Elizabeth Stroutâ€™sÂ Anything Is Possible, her stunning follow-up toÂ My Name Is Lucy Barton, a famous author returns to the Midwestern hometown of her childhood, touching off a daisy-chain of stories narrated by those who knew herâ€”memories of trauma and goodwill, resentments small and large, and the ever-widening gulf between haves and have-nots. Strout, always good, just keeps getting better.â€â€”Vogue

â€œIf you miss the charmingly eccentric and completely relatable characters from Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Stroutâ€™s best-selling My Name Is Lucy Barton, youâ€™ll be happily reunited with them in Stroutâ€™s smart and soulful Anything Is Possible.â€â€”Elle

â€œStrout pierces the inner worlds of these charactersâ€™ most private behaviors, illuminating the emotional conflicts and pure joy of being human, of finding oneself in the search for the American dream.â€â€”NYLON
Country USA
Brand Random House Audio
Manufacturer Random House Audio
Binding Audio CD
ItemPartNumber 1524774901_new
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 2017-04-25
UnitCount 1
Format Audiobook
EANs 9781524774905

Country	USA
Brand	Random House Audio
Manufacturer	Random House Audio
Binding	Audio CD
ItemPartNumber	1524774901_new
Color	Multicolor
ReleaseDate	2017-04-25
UnitCount	1
Format	Audiobook
EANs	9781524774905

Anything Is Possible: A Novel

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