Elizabeth Strout: Oh William!
Schedule
Tue Oct 26 2021 at 07:00 pm
Location
Darien Community Association (DCA) | Darien, CT
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Barrett Bookstore and the Darien Community Association are thrilled to announce a live, in-person event with beloved, Pulitzer-Prize winning author Elizabeth Strout to celebrate the release of her new novel, Oh William! The evening will include wine reception, conversation with Elizabeth and time for Q and A from the audience. Signed copies of Oh William! will be included in the ticket price and additional copies will be available at the event. Elizabeth will be in conversation with author, teacher, and podcast host Dani Shapiro.
The event will take place at the Darien Community Association. Tickets will be $35 for members of the DCA. $45 for members of the public. Ticket includes copy of the book.
PURCHASE TICKETS HERE
ABOUT OH WILLIAM!
In her latest novel (release date: October 19, 2021) Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout explores the mysteries of marriage and the secrets we keep, as a former couple reckons with where they’ve come from—and what they’ve left behind.
“Elizabeth Strout is one of my very favorite writers, so the fact that Oh William! may well be my favorite of her books is a mathematical equation for joy. The depth, complexity, and love contained in these pages is a miraculous achievement.”—Ann Patchett, author of The Dutch House
“Loneliness and betrayal, themes to which the Pulitzer Prize–winning Strout has returned throughout her career, are ever present in this illuminating character-driven saga. . . . Strout’s characters teem with angst and emotion, all of which [she] handles with a mastery of restraint and often in spare, true sentences. . . . It’s not for nothing that Strout has been compared to Hemingway. In some ways, she betters him.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“[Strout] illuminates both what people understand about others and what they understand about themselves.”—The New York Times Book Review
“Strout managed to make me love this strange woman I’d never met, who I knew nothing about. What a terrific writer she is.”—Zadie Smith
I would like to say a few things about my first husband, William.
Lucy Barton is a writer, but her ex-husband, William, remains a hard man to read. William, she confesses, has always been a mystery to me. Another mystery is why the two have remained connected after all these years. They just are.
So Lucy is both surprised and not surprised when William asks her to join him on a trip to investigate a recently uncovered family secret—one of those secrets that rearrange everything we think we know about the people closest to us. What happens next is nothing less than another example of what Hilary Mantel has called Elizabeth Strout’s “perfect attunement to the human condition.” There are fears and insecurities, simple joys and acts of tenderness, and revelations about affairs and other spouses, parents and their children. On every page of this exquisite novel we learn more about the quiet forces that hold us together—even after we’ve grown apart.
At the heart of this story is the indomitable voice of Lucy Barton, who offers a profound, lasting reflection on the very nature of existence. “This is the way of life,” Lucy says: “the many things we do not know until it is too late.”
About Elizabeth Strout
Elizabeth Strout is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Olive, Again; Anything Is Possible, winner of the Story Prize; My Name Is Lucy Barton; The Burgess Boys; Olive Kitteridge, for which she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize; Abide with Me; and Amy and Isabelle, winner of the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize. She has also been a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize in London. She lives in Maine.
About Dani Shapiro
Dani Shapiro is the author of the New York Times bestselling memoir Inheritance, as well as Hourglass, Still Writing, Devotion, and Slow Motion and five novels including Black & White and Family History. Also an essayist and a journalist, Shapiro's short fiction, essays, and journalistic pieces have appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, Tin House, One Story, Elle, Vogue, O, The Oprah Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, the op-ed pages of the New York Times, and many other publications. She has taught in the writing programs at Columbia, NYU, the New School, and Wesleyan University; she is cofounder of the Sirenland Writers Conference in Positano, Italy. In 2016, she launched the hit podcast Family Secrets, which has now been downloaded more than 16 million times, and in April of 2020 she launched a daily podcast called The Way We Live Now. She lives with her family in Litchfield County, Connecticut.
PLEASE NOTE:
We are closely monitoring the pandemic, and changes to the event format may be made at the discretion of the publisher, author or event hosts. We appreciate your understanding that refunds are not available. The DCA venue is following CDC/CT State Department of Public Health safety protocols.
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