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The Burgess Boys (2013) is the fourth book by the American author Elizabeth Strout. The novel was first published in hardback on March 26, 2013, through Random House. The story follows two brothers who must return home to help out their sister after her son is accused of a hate crime.
Mar 26, 2013 · The Burgess Boys is a literary fiction book about two brothers who return to their hometown to help their sister and her troubled son. It explores the themes of family, home, and the past. Read ratings, reviews, and quotes from the book on Goodreads.
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Apr 26, 2013 · In Elizabeth Strout’s fluid and compassionate new novel, “The Burgess Boys,” her first book since the Pulitzer Prize-winning “Olive Kitteridge,” the connections among Jim Burgess and his...
Two brothers return to their Maine hometown to help their sister with her troubled son, and face the consequences of their past and present. The Burgess Boys is a poignant and powerful novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Olive Kitteridge.
With a rare combination of brilliant storytelling, exquisite prose, and remarkable insight into character, The Burgess Boys is Elizabeth Strout’s newest and perhaps most astonishing work of literary art. Praise for Elizabeth Strout’s Pulitzer Prize–winning Olive Kitteridge “Perceptive, deeply empathetic . . .
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Apr 8, 2014 · NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Olive Kitteridge and My Name is Lucy Barton comes “a portrait of an American community in turmoil that’s as ambitious as Philip Roth’s American Pastoral but more intimate in tone” (Time).
Mar 26, 2013 · Tender, tough-minded, loving, and deeply illuminating about the ties that bind us to family and home, The Burgess Boys is perhaps Elizabeth Strout’s most astonishing work of...
