02479cam a2200349 i 4500 514374435 TxAuBib 20210930120000.0 201007s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2020044757 9780812989434 HRD 27.00 0812989430 HRD 27.00 (OCoLC)1200038997 TxAuBib rda Strout, Elizabeth. Oh William! : a novel / Elizabeth Strout. First edition. New York [New York] : Random House, an imprint and division of Penguin Random House LLC, [2021] 240 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "Strout's iconic heroine Lucy Barton recounts her complex, tender relationship with William, her first husband -- and longtime, on-again-off-again friend and confidante."-- 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.”. 20211004. jz. Women authors Fiction. Divorced men Fiction. Family secrets Fiction. Families Fiction. Man-woman relationships Fiction.