by Elizabeth Strout · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780812979510
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In 'The Burgess Boys', Pulitzer Prize-winning author Elizabeth Strout presents a portrait of an American community in turmoil, ambitious yet intimate. Jim and Bob Burgess, haunted by a tragic childhood accident, escape their Maine hometown for New York. Jim, a successful lawyer, has always belittled his kind-hearted brother Bob, a Legal Aid attorney. When their sister Susan calls them back home, family tensions resurface unexpectedly, changing their lives forever. This edition includes an original essay by Elizabeth Strout about the origins of the novel.
Elizabeth Strout is an American novelist and author. She is widely known for her works in literary fiction and her descriptive characterization. She was born and raised in Portland, Maine, and her experiences in her youth served as inspiration for her novels—the fictional "Shirley Falls, Maine" is the setting of four of her ten novels.
