The Burgess Boys

by Elizabeth Strout

Book Overview

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Includes Elizabeth Strout's never-before-published essay about the origins of The Burgess Boys 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."...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812979516
• ISBN13: 9780812979510
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.

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.