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In this first study of novelist Elizabeth Strout’s best-selling works, Katherine Montwieler reveals how Strout’s voice, characters, and themes generate a powerful empathic response among mainstream readers—mostly women—that elite scholars undervalue at their own peril. This accessible companion also includes an exclusive interview with Strout.

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“Companion is the appropriate word for Katherine Montwieler’s study of the works of Elizabeth Strout. With her careful analysis and gentle invitation to notice, among other things, the ‘quiet kindnesses, unexpected acts of grace’ of Strout’s characters, the author makes space in this book for enthusiastic readers, fans, and scholars alike to honor Strout’s stories and their centrality to our contemporary literary landscape." -- Cecilia Konchar Farr, author of The Ulysses Delusion: Rethinking Standards of Literary Merit and Reading Oprah: How Oprah's Book Club Changed the Way America Reads

A Companion to the Works of Elizabeth Strout

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      Publisher Ohio University Press
      Published 27 September 2022
      ISBN-13 9780804012416
      978-0804012416
      ISBN-10 0804012415
      Also in:
      ELT & Literary Studies Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Literary studies: from c 2000

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      In this first study of novelist Elizabeth Strout’s best-selling works, Katherine Montwieler reveals how Strout’s voice, characters, and themes generate a powerful empathic response among mainstream readers—mostly women—that elite scholars undervalue at their own peril. This accessible companion also includes an exclusive interview with Strout.

      Trade Review
      “Companion is the appropriate word for Katherine Montwieler’s study of the works of Elizabeth Strout. With her careful analysis and gentle invitation to notice, among other things, the ‘quiet kindnesses, unexpected acts of grace’ of Strout’s characters, the author makes space in this book for enthusiastic readers, fans, and scholars alike to honor Strout’s stories and their centrality to our contemporary literary landscape." -- Cecilia Konchar Farr, author of The Ulysses Delusion: Rethinking Standards of Literary Merit and Reading Oprah: How Oprah's Book Club Changed the Way America Reads

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