Olive Kitteridge (Olive Kitteridge, #1)
Recommended by Alina Varlanuta, and 1 others. See all reviewsRanked #24 in Pulitzer Prize, Ranked #57 in Short Stories — see more rankings.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Olive Kitteridge offers profound insights into the human condition – its conflicts, its tragedies and joys, and the endurance it requires.
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... more
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... more
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Alina Varlanuta I don’t have [a favourite book]. But I do have favourite characters: The flawed and broken Olive Kitteridge assembled by Elizabeth Strout. (Source)
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Olive Kitteridge (Olive Kitteridge, #1) is ranked in the following categories:
- #95 in Adultery
- #96 in Award-Winning
- #79 in Introductory
- #89 in Story
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