Abide with Me

11 hrs. 47 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Elizabeth Strout

Narrator Nadezhda Vinokurova

Description

Reverend Tyler Caskey serves the Lord in the town of West End. The congregation adores him, because he sincerely believes that they are all God’s children. But tragedy strikes Tyler’s family: his young wife dies, and he cannot cope with grief. Meanwhile, the younger daughter goes to live with her grandmother, the kindergarten teachers complain about the older daughter almost every day, and Tyler’s housekeeper behaves suspiciously…

Elizabeth Strout has been compared to John Cheever, Steinbeck, and Ray Bradbury; she was called “Richard Yates in a skirt,” and even “an American Chekhov.” Her work appeared in The New Yorker and in the Oprah Winfrey magazine O: The Oprah Magazine; she was consistently included in bestseller lists on both sides of the Atlantic, and became a finalist for prestigious PEN/Faulkner and Orange Prize literary awards. And her novel “Olive Kitteridge” won the Pulitzer Prize. Her books’ magnificent language, vivid character types, and unrelenting psychological tension ensured them well-deserved success—no exception was the novel “The Summer Before the War.”