My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout - 2016

UK: Viking, 2016. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/n/a. Signed by Author. Signed UK First edition, first printing - Scarce and especially scarce signed. A fine, unread copy of the first edition, first impression hardback - no dust jacket as issued. SIGNED to the title page. This is a FIRST PRINTING / FIRST IMPRESSION. Booker Prize Longlist 2016. Scarce. Synopsis: An exquisite story of mothers and daughters from the Pulitzer prize-winning author of Olive Kitteridge. Lucy Barton is recovering slowly from what should have been a simple operation. Her mother, to whom she hasn�t spoken for many years, comes to see her. Her unexpected visit forces Lucy to confront the tension and longing that have informed every aspect of her life: her impoverished childhood in Amgash, Illinois, her escape to New York and her desire to become a writer, her faltering marriage, her love for her two daughters. Knitting this powerful narrative together is the brilliant storytelling voice of Lucy herself: keenly observant, deeply human, and truly unforgettable. In My Name Is Lucy Barton,one of America�s finest writers shows how a simple hospital visit illuminates the most tender relationship of all-the one between mother and daughter.