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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.” Now the acclaimed author returns with a stunning novel as powerful and moving as any work in contemporary literature.
Haunted by the freak accident that killed their father when they were children, Jim and Bob Burgess escaped from their Maine hometown of Shirley Falls for New York City as soon as they possibly could. Jim, a sleek, successful corporate lawyer, has belittled his bighearted brother their whole lives, and Bob, a Legal Aid attorney who idolizes Jim, has always taken it in stride. But their long-standing dynamic is upended when their sister, Susan—the Burgess sibling who stayed behind—urgently calls them home. Her lonely teenage son, Zach, has gotten himself into a world of trouble, and Susan desperately needs their help. And so the Burgess brothers return to the landscape of their childhood, where the long-buried tensions that have shaped and shadowed their relationship begin to surface in unexpected ways that will change them forever.
With a rare combination of brilliant storytelling, exquisite prose, and remarkable insight into character, Elizabeth Strout has brought to life two deeply human protagonists whose struggles and triumphs will resonate with readers long after they turn the final page. Tender, tough-minded, loving, and deeply illuminating about the ties that bind us to family and home, The Burgess Boys is Elizabeth Strout’s newest and perhaps most astonishing work of literary art.
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“What truly makes Strout exceptional . . . is the perfect balance she achieves between the tides of story and depths of feeling.”—Chicago Tribune
“Strout’s prose propels the story forward with moments of startlingly poetic clarity.”—The New Yorker
“Elizabeth Strout’s first two books, Abide with Me and Amy and Isabelle, were highly thought of, and her third, Olive Kitteridge, won the Pulitzer Prize in fiction. But The Burgess Boys, her most recent novel, is her best yet.”—The Boston Globe
“A portrait of an American community in turmoil that’s as ambitious as Philip Roth’s American Pastoral but more intimate in tone.”—Time
“[Strout’s] extraordinary narrative gifts are evident again. . . . At times [The Burgess Boys is] almost effortlessly fluid, with superbly rendered dialogue, sudden and unexpected bolts of humor and . . . startling riffs of gripping emotion.”—Associated Press
“[Strout] is at her masterful best when conjuring the two Burgess boys. . . . Scenes between them ring so true.”—San Francisco Chronicle
From the Trade Paperback edition.
- Sales Rank: #11712 in eBooks
- Published on: 2013-03-26
- Released on: 2013-03-26
- Format: Kindle eBook
Amazon.com Review
An Amazon Best Book of the Month, March 2013: It can’t be easy to sit down and write a new novel after your last, Olive Kitteridge, won the Pulitzer Prize (in 2009). The pressure! The pressure! In The Burgess Boys, novelist Elizabeth Strout somehow manages to survive whatever next-book anxiety while at the same time revisiting the themes and types of characters that have made her famous: plainspoken Mainers (some transplanted now to Brooklyn) bound together by both love, competitiveness and the issues of the day. Here, hotshot lawyer Jim and bighearted Bob Burgess come together over a politically incorrect prank perpetrated by their sister’s son--and discover that their distrust of each other has never really gone away. But then, neither has their love. Nobody does buried conflict and tortured familial relations better than Strout. --Sara Nelson
From Booklist
Pulitzer Prize–winning Strout (Olive Kitteridge, 2008) delivers a tightly woven yet seemingly languorous portrayal of a family in longtime disarray. Brothers Jim and Bob Burgess, and sister Susan, are mired in a childhood trauma: when he was four, Bob unwittingly released the parking brake on the family car, which ran over their father and killed him. Originally from small Shirley Falls, Maine, the Burgess brothers have long since fled to vastly disparate lives as New York City attorneys. Egoistic Jim is a famous big shot with a corporate firm. Self-effacing Bob leads a more low-profile career with Legal Aid. High-strung Susan calls them home to fix a family crisis: her son stands accused of a possible hate crime against the small town’s improbable Somali population. The siblings’ varying responses to the crisis illuminate their sheer differences while also recalling their shared upbringing, forcing them finally to deal with their generally unmentioned, murky family history. Strout’s tremendous talent at creating a compelling interest in what seems on the surface to be the barest of actions gives her latest work an almost meditative state, in which the fabric of family, loyalty, and difficult choices is revealed in layer after artful layer. HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: This is the first novel from Strout since her Pulitzer Prize–winning, runaway best-seller, Olive Kitteridge, and anticipation will be high. --Julie Trevelyan
Review
“Strout’s prose propels the story forward with moments of startlingly poetic clarity.”—The New Yorker
“Elizabeth Strout’s first two books, Abide with Me and Amy and Isabelle, were highly thought of, and her third, Olive Kitteridge, won the Pulitzer Prize in fiction. But The Burgess Boys, her most recent novel, is her best yet.”—The Boston Globe
“Strout’s greatest gift as a writer, outside a diamond-sharp precision that packs 320 fast-paced pages full of insight, is her ability to let the reader in on all the rancor of her characters without making any of them truly detestable. . . . Strout creates a portrait of an American community in turmoil that’s as ambitious as Philip Roth’s American Pastoral but more intimate in tone.”—Time
“[Strout’s] extraordinary narrative gifts are evident again. . . . At times [The Burgess Boys is] almost effortlessly fluid, with superbly rendered dialogue, sudden and unexpected bolts of humor and . . . startling riffs of gripping emotion.”—Associated Press
“[Strout] is at her masterful best when conjuring the two Burgess boys. . . . Scenes between them ring so true.”—San Francisco Chronicle
“No one should be surprised by the poignancy and emotional vigor of Elizabeth Strout’s new novel. But the broad social and political range of The Burgess Boys shows just how impressively this extraordinary writer continues to develop.”—The Washington Post
“What truly makes Strout exceptional—and her latest supple and penetrating novel so profoundly affecting—is the perfect balance she achieves between the tides of story and depths of feeling. . . . Every element in Strout’s graceful, many-faceted novel is keenly observed, lustrously imagined and trenchantly interpreted.”—Chicago Tribune
“Strout deftly exposes the tensions that fester among families. But she also takes a broader view, probing cultural divides. . . . Illustrating the power of roots, Strout assures us we can go home again—though we may not want to.”—O: The Oprah Magazine
“Reading an Elizabeth Strout novel is like peering into your neighbor’s windows. . . . There is a nuanced tension in the novel, evoked by beautiful and detailed writing. Strout’s manifestations of envy, pride, guilt, selflessness, bigotry and love are subtle and spot-on.”—Minneapolis Star Tribune
“Strout conveys what it feels like to be an outsider very well, whether she’s delving into the quiet inner lives of Somalis in Shirley Falls or showing how the Burgess kids got so alienated from one another. But the details are so keenly observed, you can connect with the characters despite their apparent isolation. . . . [A] gracefully written novel. [Grade:] A.”—Entertainment Weekly
“Wincingly funny, moving, wise.”—Good Housekeeping
“With her signature lack of sentimentality, a boatload of clear-eyed compassion and a penetrating prose style that makes the novel riveting, Strout tells the story of one Maine family, transformed. Again and again, she identifies precisely the most complex of filial emotions while illuminating our relationships to the larger families we all belong to: a region, a city, America and the world.”—More
“The Burgess Boys returns to coastal Maine [with] a grand unifying plot, all twists and damage and dark, morally complex revelations. . . . The grand scale suits Strout, who now adds impresario storytelling at book length to the Down East gift for plainspoken wisdom.”—Town & Country
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365 of 397 people found the following review helpful.
Does Anyone Have Bob Burgess' Phone Number....
By Spindrift
I just finished Elizabeth Strout's new novel "The Burgess Boys" and feel more like my plane has just landed at LAX from Maine and I am disoriented as I make my way to claim my baggage because my head and my heart are still back in Shirley Falls with the Burgess family.
I want to contact someone in the family and check on everyone...that is how attached I became to "The Burgess Boys" and the rest of the clan as I read this wonderful book. It absolutely takes my breath away, how the phenomenal Strout can create a character like Olive Kitteridge (who owned my heart) and then produce her opposite on earth (Jim Burgess) so perfectly. There are alot of characters in "The Burgess Boys". In another author's hands, it could have been too many. But each of these compelling people are drawn so succinctly, with so much dimension and stunning depth, that they will literally stay with me forever. They are a family that has suffered together, not liked each other very much sometimes, but have a loving grasp on each other that will never be released. Not anyone here is completely likable...or completely not so. They all are attempting to do the best that they can. Aren't we all?
This is also the story of immigrants...and how painfully difficult their epic struggle is. How there are some elements so unique to the saga of immigrating to a new country, that it is not possible for the residents of the area receiving them to fully understand.
But most of all this is the story of an ordinary family. How childhood trauma touches all of us in different ways, how ugly and disparaging comments made to a loved one carelessly can impact their whole life. It just screams at the reader...love the ones you love well, and never wander too far away from home...because your heart never really leaves anyway.
Don't miss "The Burgess Boys". I have a feeling that it will become just as important of a book as it's predecessor, "Olive Kitteridge".
167 of 188 people found the following review helpful.
Some novels are a joy to read....
By Lazy Day Gardener
In some ways I dreaded opening Elizabeth Strout's 'The Burgess Boys.' I'd admired the Pulitzer Prize winning 'Olive Kitteridge' and feared that Strout's next novel could never live up to my expectations. In retrospect I see that I should spend more time worrying about world peace and my vanishing waist line and let Strout take care of herself.
Some authors are like trapeze artists - they make the impossible look easy. Strout is such an author. My fears for her newest novel failed to take into consideration her beautiful prose. She is a gifted storyteller. And add that her insight into the human heart, and we have the makings of a great novel.
Simply put, 'The Burgess Boys' is the story of three siblings, two brothers and a sister, who live with the guilt of their young father's death. Leaving the three in the running car, he had stepped out for a moment; one of the children sat behind the wheel, and the car rolled forward, killing their father.
'The Burgess Boys' is, as the title suggests, a novel of family relationships. And the effect of guilt and redemption. Who is truly responsible for the accident? Can the two alienated Burgess brothers pull together to help their sister when her own son is accused of a hate crime? What makes us the people that we are? How do we earn redemption?
It is a novel of character rather than plot, of introspection rather than action.
But it's also a novel whose beautiful prose is to be savoured and enjoyed.
30 of 32 people found the following review helpful.
Fascinating timely novel
By lisatheratgirl
I ripped through this book in two days. It's just excellent. The small backwoods town of Shirley Falls, Maine, from which the Burgess family hails, is dying on the vine like many towns in New England since the mills up and left. Then there is an influx of newcomers, people from war-torn Somalia, via refugee camps in Kenya. They are Muslims, wear traditional dress, and many don't speak English. Of course there is jarring culture shock for both the old residents and the newcomers, and the communication problem makes it virtually impossible to understand the values and beliefs of the opposite group. There is naturally some hostility and resentment on both sides.
The Burgess boys, Jim and Bob, are both lawyers in New York. Their sister Susan, a divorcee with a teenage son, still lives in Shirley Falls. Her son does something stupid that blows up into a national and then an international incident. He knows nothing about Islam or about what the Somalis in the town went through in their earlier lives. Within days, everyone (politicians, police, liberals, conservatives, clergy, even a white supremacist group from Montana) converges on the town for a huge rally. Susan calls in her brothers for help.
The story is terrific, but so are the characters. Jim is Perry Mason, Johnnie Cochran, F. Lee Bailey, etc. rolled into one. He almost was picked for OJ Simpson's Dream Team, but he did get an acquittal in another high profile case involving a celebrity singer. Jim is such a jerk I wouldn't have lunch with him, but I would want him on my side in litigation. Bob is a troubled Legal Aid attorney who no longer does courtroom work. Jim is condescening to everyone, but he really puts his brother down all the time, calling him moron, retard, slobdog, idiot, mental case. He's not much better to his wife, Helen, or Bob's ex-wife, Pamela, both of whom are smart, sensitive, good people. Bob is the most sensitive of the Burgess kids, and I get the impression Jim and Susan perceive this as weakness. The author also explores the situation from the view of an older man who left Mogadishu later than he should have, and now lives in Shirley Falls with cousins. It's important since the reader needs to know why the Somalian population is seeing things as they do. Probably many of the original residents of the town are associating all Muslims with 9/11 and other terrorist acts. It's a really difficult situation and I think the author handles it as well as anyone could.
This could be one of the best books of the year.
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