My Name Is Lucy Barton: Dramatic Production

by Elizabeth Strout, Rona Munro Narrated by Laura Linney

Overview

Presenting an original audiobook performance of the stage production of My Name is Lucy Barton, starring Academy Award and Tony nominee Laura Linney.

Praised as "deeply affecting" and "heartbreaking" by The Guardian (UK), this is a faithful adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Elizabeth Strout's bestselling novel of the same name.

Unsteady after an operation, Lucy Barton wakes to find her mother sitting at the foot of her bed. She hasn't seen her in years, and her visit brings back to Lucy her desperate rural childhood, and her escape to New York. As she begins to find herself as a writer, she is still gripped by the urgent complexities of family life.

Published as the play comes to Broadway after a highly-acclaimed UK run in 2018, this is a unique opportunity to hear Laura Linney's "simply superb" (The Times UK) performance of this haunting, dramatic monologue.


MY NAME IS LUCY BARTON was originally produced by Nicholas Hytner and Nick Starr for the London Theater Company at the Bridge Theatre in June 2018. Produced on Broadway by the Manhattan Theater Club, Lynne Meadow, Artistic Director, Barry Grove, Executive Producer and The London Theater Company, in association with Penguin Random House Audio.

Editorial Reviews

FEBRUARY 2020 - AudioFile

This extraordinary production of Pulitzer Prize winner (OLIVE KITTERIDGE) Elizabeth Strout’s novel will remain with listeners long after the final words fade. The credit goes to three people: Strout; Rona Munro, whose exquisite adaptation pares the story to its core; and actor Laura Linney, who alternately transforms herself into tough yet fragile Lucy and Lucy’s croak-voiced mother. The story, briefly, is that Lucy, waking from an operation during a long hospital stay, finds her estranged mother keeping watch. That surprise triggers a flood of memories, narrated by Lucy, of her strange, poverty-stricken childhood in rural Illinois. We hear all the desperation, fury, fear, and yearning of those years. And during Lucy’s hospital conversations with her mother, we come to understand their scarred but unbreakable bond. Listen now. A.C.S. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award, 2020 Best Audiobook © AudioFile 2020, Portland, Maine

FEBRUARY 2020 - AudioFile

This extraordinary production of Pulitzer Prize winner (OLIVE KITTERIDGE) Elizabeth Strout’s novel will remain with listeners long after the final words fade. The credit goes to three people: Strout; Rona Munro, whose exquisite adaptation pares the story to its core; and actor Laura Linney, who alternately transforms herself into tough yet fragile Lucy and Lucy’s croak-voiced mother. The story, briefly, is that Lucy, waking from an operation during a long hospital stay, finds her estranged mother keeping watch. That surprise triggers a flood of memories, narrated by Lucy, of her strange, poverty-stricken childhood in rural Illinois. We hear all the desperation, fury, fear, and yearning of those years. And during Lucy’s hospital conversations with her mother, we come to understand their scarred but unbreakable bond. Listen now. A.C.S. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award, 2020 Best Audiobook © AudioFile 2020, Portland, Maine

Product Details

BN ID:	2940172340543
Publisher:	Penguin Random House
Publication date:	02/04/2020
Series:	A Random House Audiobook Original
Edition description:	Unabridged

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