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Original Title:	Abide With Me
ISBN:	0812971825 (ISBN13: 9780812971828)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Rev. Tyler Caskey, Katherine Caskey
Setting:	West Annett, Maine(United States)

Abide with Me

Elizabeth Strout

Paperback | Pages: 302 pages

Rating: 3.83 | 10517 Users | 1340 Reviews

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Title	:	Abide with Me
Author	:	Elizabeth Strout
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 302 pages
Published	:	March 13th 2007 by Random House Trade (first published March 14th 2006)
Categories	:	Fiction. Contemporary. Religion. Literary Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction

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An outstanding and moving portrait of the quiet courage of a minster and his community in rural Maine in the 50’s. This is a time when the Cold War, crass commercialism, and the insights of Freud about hidden sexual motivations were undermining spirituality in the American populace. The Congregational minister, Tyler Caskey, is having trouble inspiring his flock or taking their problems seriously as he is still recovering from the death of his wife one year before. His four-year old daughter Catherine has mostly stopped speaking except to say hateful things like “I hate God” and his other infant daughter has been taken into the care of his bitchy, judgmental mother. Yet his frequent epiphanies of God immanent in nature and the model of courage set by Bonhoeffer’s faith in the face of imprisonment and death by the Nazis keeps him on the path. He comes to rise above all the vicious gossip and petty concerns of his parishioners and church board and tune into the ones who really need his help and as a result reap the help he needs himself. Just when the lack of dramatic action and the pathos of Tyler’s condition begins to weigh you down, certain personal breakthroughs on his part and some in the community stun you with surprise and joy over the resilience of the human heart and the power of love to redeem.

This second Strout novel had a lot more warmth and cohesiveness than the other I read, “Olive Kitteridge”, which features a series of vignettes about a middle-aged curmudgeon. It yielded up a lot of the same pleasures and uplifting tears that I got from the portraits of rural life in the works of Kent Haruf and Marylynne Robinson. Highly recommended and effective in audiobook version.

Abide with me; fast falls the eventide;
The darkness deepens; Lord, with me abide;
When other helpers fail and comforts flee,
Help of the helpless, oh, abide with me.

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Ratings: 3.83 From 10517 Users | 1340 Reviews

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Because I enjhoyed 'Olive Kittridge" so much, I decided to try the author's earlier books. I was slogging through this book until the final 30 pages, at which time it completely turned the corner for me. Tyler Caskey is a minister of a small church in rural Maine in the 1950s and his midlife crisis is brought on prematurelyby the death of his wife. Yet, throughout his difficulties he never really loses his faith in God, which may be why I began to warm to this book. I do not think I am giving

I really thought this book would be very different...it definitely needs a different title! The story had a lot of potential, but fell flat. None of the characters really changed at all, except possibly the daughter who finally begins speaking after her mother dies, but even the tension on this is built upon through the whole book and she just sort of starts talking without any reason behind it.A lot of really serious issues are brought up, but just sort of glossed over and almost put aside with

4.5 stars. Really glad I took a chance on this one. Can't believe this was only her second novel. Strout is a powerful writer. Her love for the natural world /New England really stood out for me in this one, and added much to my enjoyment of this book. But I think this author's real strength lies in her ability to distill a small town by climbing into the minds of many of its inhabitants. This seems a bit like it may be a slightly sweet book about a (now) single father, the local minister,

I adore the way that Elizabeth Strout writes her people. Their quiet introspection and the sedate pace of their lives, the tragedies that befall them - there are always tragedies, but they are the same that everyone deals with in their lives. Quiet lives beautifully written, no murder or mayhem but calm resignation of the fates that befall all of us or a decline entered into because of the forces of nature, but always with hope bringing them out of it.This is the story of a minister and his life

4.5 stars. A pleasant, engaging, interesting, concise, character based novel about Reverend Tyler Caskey, a New England minister, who after the death of his young wife from cancer, has a difficult time bringing up his four year old daughter Catherine. His younger daughter (less than 2 years of age), is being cared for by his mother in another village. The story is set in a small rural town in the late 1950s.Reverend Tyler Caskey finds himself subject to rumour mongering and a judgmental,

This book was not what I expected. It was not about religion but about human nature and how we overcome some of our basic and more ugly tendencies. The pastor in this book was so excellently portrayed in his strengths and his venerabilitys that I felt I could reach out and touch him. The author did not tell you the mans wife was shallow, self-absorbed and immature but by showed her behavior in telling situations. The way her husband loved her was heart rending and I was glad the author gave her

3.5 rounded to 4.