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Olive Kitteridge
Olive Kitteridge
Elizabeth Strout (born 1956)
English editions
Written in EnglishOlive Kitteridge
Random House Trade Paperbacks · United States · 30 September 2008 · Paperback · 336 pages
Olive Kitteridge
Random House · United States · 25 March 2008 · Hardcover · 288 pages
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Thirteen linked stories are set in Crosby, a small town on the coast of Maine. At their centre is Olive, a blunt and often stern junior-high teacher, later retired, married to Henry, the town's sociable pharmacist, whose faithfulness to her weighs on him as much as it sustains him. Olive resents how her town and the world are changing, yet often misses what is changing in the people close to her: a bar musician who cannot forget an old love, a former pupil who no longer wants to go on living, and her grown son Christopher, who feels crushed by her moods. As the townspeople face depression, suicide, ageing and love, Olive slowly and sometimes painfully comes to see herself more honestly.
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About the book
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- Novel
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- Family (assigned by AI)
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- United States
- First published
- 2008
- Author's age
- 52 when first published
- ISBN
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9781400062089 (Random House, United States)
9780812971835 (Random House Trade Paperbacks, United States)
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