Olive Kitteridge
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At the edge of the continent, in the small town of Crosby, Maine, lives Olive Kitteridge, a retired schoolteacher who deplores the changes in her town and in the world at large but doesn't always recognize the changes in those around her.
Originally published in hardcover without the reader's guide: New York : Random House, 2008.
Includes reader's guide (p. [273]-286).
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At the edge of the continent, in the small town of Crosby, Maine, lives Olive Kitteridge, a retired school teacher who deplores the changes in her town and in the world at large but doesn't always recognize the changes in those around her. 286p.
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Add a CommentI enjoyed this style of "short stories" woven together for a novel. Olive Kitteredge is in everyone, beautifully written.
Olive Kitteridge is an amazingly well drawn literary character. I will not soon forget her or many of the other people in this small New England town. The book is beautifully written. Authors who can draw you in to characters, and make you care about them in one short chapter, are few and far between. Elizabeth Strout does just that.
Different and artful without being showy or self-conscious.
A very good read. I enjoyed this book I would recommend this book for all to read.
Enjoyed this book a lot. A cross between Margaret Laurence andn Alice Munro...two of my favourites.
Olive Kitteridge is a character whose life touches so many others in this small New England town. The novel is told through short stories focusing on different people living in the town. Beautifully written.
I thought this was a great read. It was like reading a series of short stories, but I appreciated the common threads throughout them and the characters that appeared in more than one story. Depressing at times, but probably more true-to-life than most books.
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One of the greatest characters (and characterization) of the last 10+ years. I didn't always like Olive (she could be quite unlikable), but I did always feel like she was completely real, warts and all.
What a pessimistic book! Despite this, I give it 4 stars because it is well written. But the content! After this, no one wants live more than 50 years old. The impression is that a town is a big nursing home that "smells" of old man's closet and diseases. And they do not think about anything except the past, remembering it, even not with regret, but as something just routine, uninteresting. It's not even about loneliness. One can be lonely and sick at any age. It seems to me that the book - it is like a show to all of us - what our future will be if we live long enough, to a certain age. But when we die it is better to die with a music! That is my opinion. How we lived our life when we were young - the same way we will die. And the name of the book, in my opinion, is not entirely accurate. The book is about the many, not just about Olivia. She is, simply, as if connecting thread between all characters.