![]() ![]() The Collected Stories of William Trevor (1992). But the writing is so gorgeous, and McCann's eye for detail so breathtaking, that it helped me get once more inside the head of Lucy Barton. You might think this was a strange choice of a book to help me write Oh William!, because it's the story of a friendship between two men in the Middle East. I had read this novella many years ago, but re-reading it brought some weird impulse to write Oh William! Again, it's impossible to explain, but 16-year-old Vladimir Petrovich's infatuation with the young woman his father is secretly having an affair with got under my skin in a new way. I have no idea how or why, but reading West of Sunset caused me to feel the presence of Fitzgerald as I was working on all three of my Lucy Barton books. Scott Fitzgerald's last years in Hollywood. ![]() This novel is a fictionalized account, brilliantly done, of F. Below, she names six books that inspired her as she wrote her new novel, Oh William!, in which Lucy joins her ex-husband on a major road trip. Elizabeth Strout is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Olive Kitteridge and My Name Is Lucy Barton. ![]()
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