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Condition: brand newformat: paperbackisbn: 9781471168864publisher: simon & schusterage range: adult overviewolive kitteridge is elizabeth strout's pulitzer prize-winning novel-in-stories, later adapted into an emmy award-winning hbo miniseries starring frances mcdormand. Set in the small coastal town of crosby, maine, it weaves together thirteen interlinked narratives centred on olive, a retired schoolteacher whose sharp tongue and tender heart quietly shape the lives of everyone around her. Funny, wrenching and deeply human, this is a modern classic of american literary fiction, perfect for readers who love character-driven stories about ordinary lives. About the bookolive kitteridge is a complex, often contradictory woman: indomitable to some, compassionate to others, and always utterly convinced she is right. A retired schoolteacher in the small coastal town of crosby, maine, she moves through the novel's thirteen linked stories sometimes as the central figure, sometimes as a passing presence at the edge of someone else's crisis. Through her, and through the wider community of crosby, elizabeth strout builds a portrait of a life and a town across decades: marriages that endure or crumble, children who leave and return, illness, loss, small acts of kindness and cruelty, and the quiet accumulation of regret and hope that makes up an ordinary existence. Strout's prose is spare, precise and unsentimental, yet the emotional impact is enormous readers consistently...
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