Abide With Me, Elizabeth Strout
Abide With Me, Elizabeth Strout
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Abide With Me

Author: Elizabeth Strout

Narrator: Bernadette Dunne

Unabridged: 10 hr 5 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 Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Olive Kitteridge; the #1 New York Times bestseller My Name Is Lucy Barton; The Burgess Boys, a New York Times bestseller; Abide with Me, a national bestseller and Book Sense pick; and Amy and Isabelle, which won the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize. She has also been a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize in England. 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.Bernadette Dunne has been narrating for Books on Tape since 1997. She has been twice nominated for The Audie Award and has won six Golden Earphones awards. She studied at the Royal National Theatre in London and The Studio Theatre in Washington, DC. She has appeared at The Kennedy Center, The Washington Shakespeare Company, and Woolly Mammoth in Washington, DC. As a playwright, her work has been produced in New York, Seattle, and Washington, DC. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.


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