The Burgess Boys

by Elizabeth Strout

Book Overview

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post - NPR - Good Housekeeping Elizabeth Strout "animates the ordinary with an astonishing force," wrote The New Yorker on the publication of her Pulitzer Prize-winning Olive Kitteridge . The San Francisco Chronicle praised Strout's "magnificent gift for humanizing characters." Now the acclaimed author returns with a stunning novel as powerful and moving as any work...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1400067685
• ISBN13: 9781400067688
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: Random House
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

What a great book

This book was good in so many ways. The characters were fully developed. I was completely drawn into the story and the lives of these characters.

The Burgess Boys was a stellar read

Elizabeth Strout is an outstanding storyteller. Tracing the family history - three generations - in this novel set in Maine/NYC is done so well. She goes deep without being mired. Her prose doesn't waste a word. The Burgess Boys, like Olive Kitterege, kept me in page-turner mode from beginning to end. I've since gone on to find more Strout work. It is moving, insightful and honest.