New York Times Bestseller
Pulitzer Prize winner and Oprah’s Book Club selection—meet Olive Kitteridge, the prickly, unforgettable retired schoolteacher whose complicated nature will stay with you long after the last page. Set in coastal Maine, this New York Times Bestseller captures the quiet tragedies and unexpected joys of ordinary life with astonishing force.
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There’s something about a character who stays with you long after you’ve closed the book—and Olive Kitteridge is exactly that kind of person. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and an Oprah’s Book Club selection, Elizabeth Strout’s remarkable novel introduces us to a retired schoolteacher in the small coastal town of Crosby, Maine, whose complicated nature mirrors our own.
Olive is prickly, honest, sometimes maddeningly difficult—and utterly unforgettable. Through thirteen interconnected stories, we watch her navigate the quiet tragedies and unexpected joys of ordinary life: a husband’s quiet devotion, a son’s desperate need for distance, neighbors struggling with their own private heartaches. Strout writes with such precision and tenderness that even Olive’s harshest moments reveal something deeply human.
This New York Times Bestseller and New York Times Notable Book has earned extraordinary praise. The New Yorker notes that “Strout animates the ordinary with astonishing force,” while USA Today declares, “Fiction lovers, remember this name: Olive Kitteridge. . . . You’ll never forget her.”
Set against the backdrop of a changing Maine coastline—a landscape we know well here in Ogunquit—this is a novel about what it means to truly see the people around us, and to be seen ourselves. It’s the kind of book that makes you pause between pages, stare out at the water, and think about your own life a little differently.
The inspiration for the Emmy Award–winning HBO miniseries, this modern classic belongs on every reader’s shelf.
Strout animates the ordinary with astonishing force.
Fiction lovers, remember this name: Olive Kitteridge. . . . You'll never forget her.
Strout's gift is to make us believe that Olive is not a monster but more deeply human than the rest of us.
Perceptive, deeply empathetic . . . Olive is the axis around which these thirteen complex, relentlessly human narratives spin themselves into Elizabeth Strout's unforgettable novel in stories.
Spectacular . . . [Olive Kitteridge] will make you laugh, nod in recognition, wince in pain, and shed a few tears. . . . Strout's talents have been recognized before, but Olive Kitteridge will seal her reputation as one of America's finest novelists.
As perfect a novel as you will ever read.
Strout's storytelling is breathtaking. . . . [Olive Kitteridge is] a character who will keep company with the likes of Faulkner's Emily Grierson ('A Rose for Emily') and Eudora Welty's Phoenix Jackson ('A Worn Path').
Masterful . . . an outstanding book [that] should be savored like a good wine or chocolate.
Strout manages to convey the sternness and the vulnerability of a character who might have been a monster but is in the end poignantly, problematically human.
Olive Kitteridge offers profound insights into the human condition.
| Weight | 0.55 lbs |
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| Dimensions | 5.15 × 0.72 × 7.98 in |
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| Accolade | New York Times Bestseller, New York Times Notable Book, Oprah's Book Club, Pulitzer Prize |
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