--- product_id: 10281455 title: "Abide with Me: A Novel" brand: "elizabeth strout" price: "S/.115" currency: PEN in_stock: true reviews_count: 9 url: https://www.desertcart.pe/products/10281455-abide-with-me-a-novel store_origin: PE region: Peru --- # Abide with Me: A Novel **Brand:** elizabeth strout **Price:** S/.115 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Abide with Me: A Novel by elizabeth strout - **How much does it cost?** S/.115 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.pe](https://www.desertcart.pe/products/10281455-abide-with-me-a-novel) ## Best For - elizabeth strout enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted elizabeth strout brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Full description not available ## Images ![Abide with Me: A Novel - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51-uaUWnA4L.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐ a disappointment *by M***R on Reviewed in the United States on March 27, 2023* After having read and loved Olive Kitteridge, Lucy Barton and then Amy and Isabelle I had great expectations for Abide with Me.It’s a good book with most of the wonderful qualities of the others but somehow the characters meant less to me and i found the the hero to be a dull character. I felt he had less psychological depth than most of the characters in the other books which is surprising as he is the central character and Elizabeth is one of the best writers of psychologically layered characters i have ever read. Perhaps i didn’t enjoy the constant use of biblical text. I’m not sure really why this novel didn’t work so well for me. It hasn’t put me off though and I’m about to open The Burgess Boys. Wish me luck. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A book review of Elizabeth Strout's "Abide with Me" *by R***D on Reviewed in the United States on May 15, 2011* Reading Elizabeth Strout's "Abide with Me" reminded me how fiction can sometime capture the truth of things better than a factual account, just as a fine painting can sometimes be more truthful than a photograph of the same scene.I heard Strout speak a few years ago at a Bangor Theological Seminary Convocation, and I knew her book was about a congregational minister in rural Maine, but I only just got around to reading it. I'm glad I did.The resonances for me to my own life are striking. I am not Tyler Caskey, her protagonist, but I did begin my ministry in a couple of very small rural Maine towns that bear a notable resemblance to the fictional West Annett. And I left those congregations to become the chaplain at Bangor Seminary, which is the model for Tyler's alma mater, Brockmorton Theological Seminary (a whimsical reference I am sure to my late former colleague, iconic Bangor New Testament Professor Burton H. Throckmorton.)Like Tyler I married a Massachusetts gal who came up to live with me in the parsonage to much speculation. There are many differences to be sure: I started my ministry in the mid 70's and Tyler in the late 50's, but things in small town Maine hadn't changed all that much.Stout deftly describes the "wheels within wheels" complexity behind the seemingly simple social life of a small Maine town. The people of West Annett endure the soul-numbing endless winter, and they are unaware of how they have embraced their dearth of possibilities as a virtue.Strout takes her time. You know from the first page that some bad things have happened to Tyler Caskey and the denizens of West Annett, but she is no hurry to tell you what they are. Her storytelling is like peeling an onion, and that in itself captures the rhythm of these small towns, where nothing ever seems to happen on the surface when it is really as busy as an ant farm just below.Tyler himself is a loveable character, too earnest by half, with his love of Bonhoeffer, his tenderness toward is wounded young daughter, and his quiet faithfulness in his daily round. Strout knows her church, and she knows something of the grandeur and misery of the ministry, as the minister can move in a minute from reading the Cost of Discipleship to hearing tawdry local gossip or the sordid confession of a soured marriage. Her cast of characters will bring a smile to many a rural parson: the hostile husband reading the paper in the car in the church parking lot, the loyalist who routinely phones Tyler to warn him what's up, several variants of antagonists, and the married woman with a crush on the minister as well as a bone to pick.Strout observes her characters with clear eyes, and her depictions at times just miss being cruel. If you care for these flawed people at all it is because of something like grace, since they are not "good" people in the way that real people generally are not. Yet in the end, in keeping with its subject matter, this is a story of redemption. Strout doesn't clean up the messiness of life, but she knows that the holy rhythm that runs from Good Friday to Easter isn't confined to ancient Jerusalem.I don't want to give too much away. Read Abide with Me. It's the kind of book that when you finish the last page and close the cover you are already missing the characters.[...] ### ⭐⭐⭐ Not for me *by J***G on Reviewed in the United States on July 24, 2022* This was recommended as “literary” and “Christian” fiction. It was well written, indeed literary. And Christian is a very elastic term these days, I won’t quibble over the use of the term. As many others have pointed out, it is about the rather tragic life of a young pastor of a mainline church in a little town in New England. His faith is challenged by personal tragedy and petty gossip.Some have called it slow. I didn’t find it “slow” reading at all. For me it was a page turner. What was a real issue with me was the gratuitous, vulgar descriptions of sex (explaining the inner workings of one man’s affair with an anonymous “woman from Boston.”). Such an objection will be dismissed as puritanical, I suppose, but I make it nonetheless. The resolution of the affair was pretty casual; I’m not sure the man really knew much about repentance, or sought it. His long suffering wife certainly put up with a lot. Other characters were, I thought, pretty finely drawn, and the author brought in some surprises along the way. I liked Tyler, the pastor, and wanted him to be delivered (from his overbearing, controlling mother, his dismissive in laws, his petty parishioners, and intrusive school officials). Many pastors are people pleasers, not that those kind ever make the news, and to see him vindicated and supported at the end of the book was gratifying. For all that, I just wouldn’t read it again, or suggest that anyone else do so. There are ways to write about immorality without being vulgar. It cheapened the whole thing for me. The many positive reviews here indicate that most weren’t offended. So be it. I think the book could have been elevated, and more powerful without the graphic sex, it wasn’t needed. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.pe/products/10281455-abide-with-me-a-novel](https://www.desertcart.pe/products/10281455-abide-with-me-a-novel) --- *Product available on Desertcart Peru* *Store origin: PE* *Last updated: 2026-04-25*