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Anything is possible / Elizabeth Strout.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Thorndike, Maine : Center Point Large Print, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Edition: Center Point Large Print editionDescription: 272 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781683243939
  • 1683243935
Uniform titles:
  • Short stories. Selections
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
The sign -- Windmills -- Cracked -- The hit-thumb theory -- Mississippi Mary -- Sister -- Dottie's bed & breakfast -- Snow-blind -- Gift.
Summary: A collection of stories tell of two sisters: one trades self-respect for a wealthy husband while the other finds in the pages of a book a kindred spirit who changes her life. The janitor at the local school has his faith tested in an encounter with an isolated man he has come to help; a grown daughter longs for mother love even as she comes to accept her mother's happiness in a foreign country; and the adult Lucy Barton returns to visit her siblings after seventeen years of absence.Summary: Strout's stories explore the whole range of human emotion through the intimate dramas of people struggling to understand themselves and others.
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Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Vol info Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Large Print Book Large Print Book Dr. James Carlson Library Large Print Fiction Strout, Elizabet AM 2 Available 33111008944171
Large Print Book Large Print Book Main Library Large Print Fiction Strout, Elizabet AM 2 Available 33111008789527
Total holds: 0

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Two sisters: One trades self-respect for a wealthy husband while the other finds, in the pages of a book, a kindred spirit who changes her life.The janitor at the local school has his faith tested in an encounter with an isolated man he has come to help; a grown daughter longs for mother-love even as she comes to accept her mother's happiness in a foreign country; and the adult Lucy Barton (the heroine of My Name Is Lucy Barton, the author's celebrated New York Times bestseller) returns to visit her siblings after seventeen years of absence.Reverberating with the deep bonds of family and the hope that comes with reconciliation, Anything Is Possible again underscores Elizabeth Strout's place as one of America's most respected and cherished authors.

The sign -- Windmills -- Cracked -- The hit-thumb theory -- Mississippi Mary -- Sister -- Dottie's bed & breakfast -- Snow-blind -- Gift.

A collection of stories tell of two sisters: one trades self-respect for a wealthy husband while the other finds in the pages of a book a kindred spirit who changes her life. The janitor at the local school has his faith tested in an encounter with an isolated man he has come to help; a grown daughter longs for mother love even as she comes to accept her mother's happiness in a foreign country; and the adult Lucy Barton returns to visit her siblings after seventeen years of absence.

Strout's stories explore the whole range of human emotion through the intimate dramas of people struggling to understand themselves and others.

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