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Olive Kitteridge

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By Elizabeth Strout
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Olive Kitteridge follows the life of Olive, a retired schoolteacher in the small town of Crosby, Maine. She navigates her complex relationships with a range of characters, including a haunted lounge musician, a despondent former student, her challenging adult child, and her devoted husband Henry. Through these interconnected stories, Olive confronts the changes in her town and within herself, leading to moments of profound self-awareness delivered with honesty and depth.
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Format: Paperback / softback
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This novel is suited to readers interested in literary fiction that explores complex human emotions and the subtleties of everyday life. Fans of character-driven narratives and reflective storytelling will find it compelling.

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Olive Kitteridge offers profound insights into the human condition - its conflicts, its tragedies and joys, and the endurance it requires.

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At times stern, at other times patient, at times perceptive, at other times in sad denial, Olive Kitteridge, a retired schoolteacher, deplores the changes in her little town of Crosby, Maine, and in the world at large, but she doesn't always recognize the changes in those around her: a lounge musician haunted by a past romance; a former student who has lost the will to live; Olive's own adult child, who feels tyrannized by her irrational sensitivities; and her husband, Henry, who finds his loyalty to his marriage both a blessing and a curse.

As the townspeople grapple with their problems, mild and dire, Olive is brought to a deeper understanding of herself and her life—sometimes painfully, but always with ruthless honesty. Olive Kitteridge offers profound insights into the human condition—its conflicts, its tragedies and joys, and the endurance it requires.

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ISBN: 9780812971835

Publisher: Random House USA Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 30 September 2008

Country: United States

Imprint: Random House Trade Paperbacks

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 17.0mm

Width: 130.0mm

Height: 201.0mm

Weight: 238g

Pages: 336

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About the Author

Elizabeth Strout is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Olive Kitteridge, winner of the Pulitzer Prize; Olive, Again, an Oprah’s Book Club pick; Anything Is Possible, winner of the Story Prize; My Name is Lucy Barton, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize; The Burgess Boys, named one of the best books of the year by The Washington Post and NPR; Abide with Me, a national bestseller; and Amy and Isabelle, winner of the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize. She has also been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the International Dublin Literary Award, and the Orange Prize. Her short stories have been published in a number of magazines, including The New Yorker and O: The Oprah Magazine. Elizabeth Strout lives in New York City.

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