![]() ![]() ![]() William and Lucy go to a house in Maine arranged by a friend, Bob Burgess (from Strout’s book The Burgess Boys). This baffled me, I could not grasp it.” And later “Almost always, there was that sense of being underwater of things not being real.” William works to get their daughters who also lived in NYC to leave and he is knowledgable and persuasive at finding ways to protect all of them. She says “All Lincoln Center was closed down. Even as time went by, Lucy was bewildered. Lucy, a successful author, accepted William’s authority in this as he was a scientist. She agreed, assuming she would return in a few weeks. In March of 2020 Lucy Barton, the subject of four of Strout’s books, is told by her ex-husband William to pack to leave New York City in a few days’ time. First, the numbers: this is my seventh Elizabeth Strout book and my fourth pandemic book ( Intimations by Zadie Smith, Our Country Friends by Gary Shteyngart, and The Sentence by Louise Erdrich). ![]()
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