Olive Kitteridge
The Beloved Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novel
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3.6 • 336 Ratings
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Publisher Description
The beloved first novel featuring Olive Kitteridge from the author of Olive, Again and Oh William!
Olive Kitteridge: indomitable, compassionate, and often unpredictable. A retired schoolteacher in a small coastal town in Maine, as Olive grows older, she struggles to make sense of the changes in her life. She is a woman who sees into the hearts of those around her, their triumphs and tragedies.
A penetrating, vibrant exploration of the human soul, the story of Olive Kitteridge will make you laugh, nod in recognition, wince in pain, and shed a tear or two.
'As perfect a novel as you will ever read'
Evening Standard
'A superbly gifted storyteller and a craftswoman in a league of her own'
Hilary Mantel
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Olive Kitteridge is a book that sneaks up on you. One minute you’re reading a lyrical, contemplative novel about the inhabitants of a fictional town in coastal Maine, and the next minute—wham!—you’re listening in on a character airing intimate and explosive secrets. Elizabeth Strout’s 2009 Pulitzer Prize winner—the basis for HBO’s award-winning miniseries starring Frances McDormand—is flat-out magnificent. Engaging from the outset, the novel makes you care deeply about its perfectly flawed characters and their beautiful, emotionally treacherous world.
Customer Reviews
Watch out at the end of this edition
This is a fantastic book but in this edition, iBooks has tacked the first chapter of a *totally separate novel* on to the end of the book without warning. There's no suggestion that you've actually finished Olive Kitteridge and are now reading a preview chapter of another novel, Burgess Boys - which is very, very confusing. It left me thinking the book ended on a ridiculously jarring note with a random chapter that had nothing to do with Olive. (Olive Kitteridge is a collection of linked short stories, so each chapter is a different story). The publisher or iBooks needs to fix this.
Average book with some nice prose
Novel tended to wander: too many characters presented without extended development. Some great insights but also some very average writing.
Ageing
Loved this book. Getting older is something that just happens, before you know it your life gets ahead of you. Loved the way you get to view ageing from the eyes of a 70something Olive, with all the emotions of the years passed and the years to come and of course the getting used to the idea of dying. This book is real!