Olive Kitteridge
The Beloved Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novel
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3.6 • 310 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Olive Kitteridge – the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning novel
This beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, turned into an Emmy Award-winning HBO mini-series, is an extraordinary story about an ordinary woman’s life, and a vibrant exploration of all that connects us. 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… So astonishingly good that I shall be reading it once a year for the foreseeable future and very probably for the rest of my life.'Evening Standard
Olive Kitteridge is a complex woman. Described by some as indomitable and by others as compassionate, she herself has always been certain that she is absolutely right about everything. A retired schoolteacher in a small coastal town in Maine, as she grows older she struggles to make sense of the changes in her life.
Through different narratives, telling the triumphs and tragedies of those around her, and spanning years, Olive’s story emerges. We meet her stoic husband, bound to her in a marriage both broken and strong, and a young man pained by loss – whom Olive comforts by her mere presence, while her own son feels overwhelmed by her sensitivities.
Praise for Elizabeth Strout
‘Strout animates the ordinary with astonishing force.’ The New Yorker
'A terrific writer.' Zadie Smith
'So good it gave me goosebumps.’Sunday Times
'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!