Abide with Me, Elizabeth Strout
Abide with Me, Elizabeth Strout
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Abide with Me

Author: Elizabeth Strout

Narrator: Gerrianne Raphael

Abridged: 5 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/14/2006


Synopsis

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Olive Kitteridge and My Name is Lucy Barton comes a “deeply moving” (The Washington Post) novel that “confirms Strout as the possessor of an irresistibly companionable, peculiarly American voice” (The Atlantic Monthly).

“Superb . . . a shimmering tale of loss, faith, and human fallibility.”—O: The Oprah Magazine

In the late 1950s, in a small New England town, Reverend Tyler Caskey has suffered a terrible loss and finds it hard to be the person he once was. He struggles to find the right words in his sermons and in his conversations with those facing crises of their own, and to bring his five-year-old daughter, Katherine, out of the silence she has observed in the wake of the family’s tragedy. Tyler’s usually patient and kind congregation now questions his leadership and propriety, and accusations are born out of anger and gossip. Then, in Tyler’s darkest hour, a startling discovery will test his parish’s humanity—and his own will to endure the trials that sooner or later test us all.

About The Author

Elizabeth Strout is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Olive Kitteridge, winner of the Pulitzer Prize; Olive, Again, an Oprah’s Book Club pick; Anything Is Possible, winner of the Story Prize; My Name is Lucy Barton, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize; The Burgess Boys, named one of the best books of the year by The Washington Post and NPR; Abide with Me, a national bestseller; and Amy and Isabelle, winner of the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize. She has also been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the International Dublin Literary Award, and the Orange Prize. Her short stories have been published in a number of magazines, including The New Yorker and O: The Oprah Magazine. Elizabeth Strout lives in New York City.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Nancy on November 04, 2010

What a lovely book. Strout has a real gift for gentle prose that reveals the characters' thoughts. Utterly believable--when the church women criticize the minister's wife for her slingback shoes and not drying all the dishes, I felt as if I knew these women, their values and their habits. The teache......more

Goodreads review by Mark on November 14, 2020

How come I waited so long between Elizabeth Strout books? Sometimes when there’s a wee gap in time between reading a favourite author you can forget just how good they are. Abide with Me was a wonderful experience. I truly loved it. Strout serves up the usual character based story we are used to, thi......more

Goodreads review by Pedro on October 17, 2020

By now, I think everyone on here knows that I believe Elizabeth Strout’s writing is nothing short of outstanding. Mrs Strout is a master in character development and dialogue and no one can do it like her. Full stop! And now, I must admit that sometimes I think about Mrs Strout (with all respect, ma’......more

Goodreads review by Jennifer on August 28, 2024

2.5 This was my least favorite of Strout’s books, not having read The Burgess Boys or her newest. It was slow, which I think is an objective comment, and claustrophobic, which is a subjective one. Reading and not liking this much actually shed some light on my issue with Meg Nolan’s, Ordinary Human......more

Goodreads review by Ron on December 26, 2013

Every novel is about a crisis of faith -- in one's self, one's partner, one's prospects -- but novels about religious leaders often portray crisis in explicitly spiritual terms, and that can be hell. Too often, churchy language forces the rich ambiguity of good fiction to get "left behind." Lately,......more


Quotes

“Strout’s greatly anticipated second novel . . . is an answered prayer.”Vanity Fair
 
“Superb . . . a shimmering tale of loss, faith, and human fallibility . . . You feel yourself in the hands of a master storyteller.”O: The Oprah Magazine
 
“Deeply moving . . . In one beautiful page after another, Strout captures the mysterious combinations of hope and sorrow. She sees all these wounded people with heartbreaking clarity, but she has managed to write a story that cradles them in understanding and that, somehow, seems like a foretaste of salvation.”The Washington Post
 
“This lovely second novel confirms Strout as the possessor of an irresistibly companionable, peculiarly American voice: folksy, poetic, but always as precise as a shadow on a brilliant winter day.”The Atlantic Monthly
 
“Graceful and moving . . . The pacing of Strout’s deeply felt fiction about the distance between parents and children gives her work an addictive quality.”People (four stars)