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Abide With Me

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Abide With Me

By: Elizabeth Strout
Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
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 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Olive Kitteridge and My Name is Lucy Barton comes a “deeply moving” (The Washington Post) novel that “confirms Strout as the possessor of an irresistibly companionable, peculiarly American voice” (The Atlantic Monthly).

“Superb . . . a shimmering tale of loss, faith, and human fallibility.”—O: The Oprah Magazine

In the late 1950s, in a small New England town, Reverend Tyler Caskey has suffered a terrible loss and finds it hard to be the person he once was. He struggles to find the right words in his sermons and in his conversations with those facing crises of their own, and to bring his five-year-old daughter, Katherine, out of the silence she has observed in the wake of the family’s tragedy. Tyler’s usually patient and kind congregation now questions his leadership and propriety, and accusations are born out of anger and gossip. Then, in Tyler’s darkest hour, a startling discovery will test his parish’s humanity—and his own will to endure the trials that sooner or later test us all.©2006 Elizabeth Strout; (P)2006 Books on Tape Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Literary Fiction Psychological

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A wonderfully composed and heart warming story - multi layered & multi faceted - the characters develop in a believable way

Strout at her best

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This is a story about human frailty and hope in abiding. Narrator read very well and was not difficult to listen to. Strout writes with a poignancy and rawness to her characters. You feel for the main character and want to hear that he does well. How sad that she missed the best parts of Bonhoeffer’s writings! But then maybe the costly grace didn’t need to be spelled out.

Authentic humanity

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Again Strout taps into the human spirit and emotions. She is truly a modern great

Another beautiful story by Strout

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Great story. Really enjoyed listening to it. Narrator does a wonderful job. Would have no hesitation in recommending it.

Absorbing and Enthralling

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At first I was a little dubious. It seemed a bit heavy and dour. I'd come from her Olive books, so was a little bit slow readjusting to this different style. I need say no more than, after my first reading (listening), I started the book again immediately, because its quality, characters and storyline had so enthralled me, I felt I hadn't done it justice the first time.

Wonderful

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