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Olive Kitteridge par Elizabeth Strout
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Olive Kitteridge (édition 2008)

par Elizabeth Strout (Auteur)

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At the edge of the continent, in the small town of Crosby, Maine, lives Olive Kitteridge, a retired schoolteacher who deplores the changes in her town and in the world at large but doesn't always recognize the changes in those around her.
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Titre:Olive Kitteridge
Auteurs:Elizabeth Strout (Auteur)
Info:Random House Trade Paperbacks (2008), Edition: Reprint, 320 pages
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Really liked it at first, and bits of it all along; the writing is very good. But there were no happy characters, it seemed, no one who was contented with their lot. And a whole lot of adulterers. Which sounds like I object on religious grounds--not at all, just on the grounds that there might have been ONE happy couple in the bunch, you'd think. ( )
  Abcdarian | May 18, 2024 |
If ever a book reached into my chest and took my still-beating heart in its fist, this one did. Elizabeth Strout's writing is so evocative I felt like I was standing on a cliff overlooking a pebbled Maine beach and breathing the salt air. (Oh how I wish...!) Her characters are so alive. But now I am bereft. How can Olive be gone from my life? Ah, but there's a new book! Brb just need to add my name to the queue at the library... ( )
  punkinmuffin | Apr 30, 2024 |
Wonderful. Real, compassionate, believable. Reminds me of Michael Cunningham. ( )
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  tamaranth | Apr 16, 2024 |
Not bad. The title character anchors the novel with various acquaintances radiating around her life in different chapters. Olive isn't particularly likeable and the novel feels like it is trying to get you to overcome this and feel compassion for her and her follies, which according to Olive she cannot help and is not even particularly aware of. It was an interesting contrast to Outline by Rachel Cusk that I finished about a week ago. Outline's central character also calls people to task for what they say and is sharply honest and insightful. Olive on the other hand just flips over to rude and mean and any insights her calmer side may have had go out the door. One of my strongest responses was sympathy for the characters of her husband and son, more than empathy for Olive. While Olive is meant, in her calmer zone, to have had a positive impact on the other characters lives I wasn't convinced. There is one very odd chapter where she seems to save the day, twice, (the one in the guy's car), I found this a bit hard to believe. The other, more trite, mean examples rang truer. I'd give it a 3 to 3.5 only. ( )
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Each of the 13 tales serves as an individual microcosm of small-town life, with its gossip, small kindnesses, and everyday tragedies. Not all the minor characters stand out the way Henry and Olive do, and there are a pile of them to keep straight by the end. I also couldn’t quite place how one story, “Ship in a Bottle,” meshed with the rest. But those are small flaws far outweighed by the book’s compassion and intelligence.
ajouté par Shortride | modifierThe Christian Science Monitor, Yvonne Zipp (May 16, 2008)
 
The pleasure in reading “Olive Kitteridge” comes from an intense identification with complicated, not always admirable, characters. And there are moments in which slipping into a character’s viewpoint seems to involve the revelation of an emotion more powerful and interesting than simple fellow feeling—a complex, sometimes dark, sometimes life-sustaining dependency on others.
ajouté par SqueakyChu | modifierThe New York Times, Louisa Thomas (Apr 20, 2008)
 
Olive Kitteridge might be described by some as a battle axe or as brilliantly pushy, by others as the kindest person they had ever met. Olive herself has always been certain that she is 100% correct about everything - although, lately, her certitude has been shaken. This indomitable character appears at the centre of these narratives that comprise Olive Kitteridge. In each of them, we watch Olive, a retired schoolteacher, as she struggles to make sense of the changes in her life and the lives of those around her always with brutal honesty, if sometimes painfully. Olive will make you laugh, nod in recognition, as well as wince in pain or shed a tear or two. We meet her stoic husband, bound to her in a marriage both broken and strong, and her own son, tyrannised by Olive's overbearing sensitivities. The reader comes away, amazed by this author's ability to conjure this formidable heroine and her deep humanity that infiltrates every page.
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Strout, Elizabeth—auteur principaltoutes les éditionsconfirmé
Blanchette, Dana LeighConcepteur de la couvertureauteur secondairequelques éditionsconfirmé
Burr, SandraNarrateurauteur secondairequelques éditionsconfirmé
Castoldi, SilviaTraducteurauteur secondairequelques éditionsconfirmé
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Versluys, Marijke—auteur secondairequelques éditionsconfirmé
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For many years Henry Kitteridge was a pharmacist in the next town over, driving every morning on snowy roads, or rainy roads, or summertime roads, when the wild raspberries shot their new growth in brambles along the last section of town before he turned off to where the wider road led to the pharmacy.
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Olive had sat in her bedroom and wept like a baby, not so much for this country but for the city itself, which had seemed to her to become suddenly no longer a foreign, hardened place, but as fragile as a class of kindergarten children, brave in their terror.
She showed him the library built the year before Henry's stroke, with its cathedral ceiling and skylights. He looked at the books, and she wanted to say, "Stop that," as though he were reading her diary.
Who, who, does not have their basket of trips.
He wanted to put his arms around her, but she had a darkness that seemed to stand beside her like an acquaintance that would not go away. – "Pharmacy"
Angie... felt she had figured something out too late, and that must be the way of life, to get something figured out when it was too late. – "The Piano Player"
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