#1 New York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout continues the life of her beloved Olive Kitteridge, a character who has captured the imaginations of millions of readers. Prickly, wry, resistant to change yet ruthlessly honest and deeply empathetic, Olive Kitteridge is “a compelling life force” (San Francisco Chronicle). The New Yorker has said th...
#1 New York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout continues the life of her beloved Olive Kitteridge, a character who has captured the imaginations of millions of readers. Prickly, wry, resistant to change yet ruthlessly honest and deeply empathetic, Olive Kitteridge is “a compelling life force” (San Francisco Chronicle). The New Yorker has said that Elizabeth Strout “animates the ordinary with an astonishing force,” and she has never done so more clearly than in these pages, where the iconic Olive struggles to understand not only herself and her own life but the lives of those around her in the town of Crosby, Maine. Whether with a teenager coming to terms with the loss of her father, a young woman about to give birth during a hilariously inopportune moment, a nurse who confesses a secret high school crush, or a lawyer who struggles with an inheritance she does not want to accept, the unforgettable Olive will continue to startle us, to move us, and to inspire moments of transcendent grace.
Elizabeth Strout is the author of several novels, including: Abide with Me, a national bestseller and BookSense pick, and Amy and Isabelle, which won the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize, and was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize in England. In 2009 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for he...
Elizabeth Strout is the author of several novels, including: Abide with Me, a national bestseller and BookSense pick, and Amy and Isabelle, which won the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize, and was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize in England. In 2009 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her book Olive Kitteridge. Her short stories have been published in a number of magazines, including The New Yorker. She teaches at the Master of Fine Arts program at Queens University of Charlotte.
“I’m scared to death of dying. I really am. I can feel it coming so fast—whoosh! Jesus, it all goes so fast these days. But you know what?”
“What?”
“I don’t really care, either. I mean, about dying. It’s so strange, Bobby. Because on one hand I have these moments—or I had these moments before I got all doped up—of just sheer terror. Terror. And at the very same time, I kind of feel like, Yeah, okay, let’s go, I’m ready.” (查看原文)
“You know, I just want to say, Mrs. Kitteridge told us, years ago in that math class—I will never forget it—one day she just stopped a math problem she was doing on the board and she turned around and she said to the class, ‘You all know who you are. If you just look at yourself and listen to yourself, you know exactly who you are. And don’t forget it.’ And I never did forget it. It kind of gave me courage over the years because she was right; I did know who I was.” (查看原文)
One of the things that made me so fond of this book is that the author did not shy away from those unsavoury and somehow cruel parts of ageing and being independent both physically and emotionally. The rather painful and raw reality brought me to the questi...
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29, The truth is that olive did not understand why age had brought with it a kind of hard-heartedness toward her husband. But it was something she has seemed unable to help, as though the stone wall that had rambled along between them during the course of t...
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1 有用 无人知晓 2022-03-25 15:39:09
带着第一季 Frances 演绎的形象来读这本续集。依旧是在虚构的海边小城里，那些关于孤独老人的故事。Olive 性格不讨喜，最喜欢 honest 的人，有什么说什么，七十到八十岁的年龄里依旧 know nothing，在养老公寓中平静地老去。关于死亡，总是猝不及防地出现在一句自然的话语里，that’s it
0 有用 卡桑德拉 2019-12-03 10:31:43
I do not have a clue who I have been. Truthfully, I do not understand a thing.
0 有用 timesawastin 2021-11-28 09:10:33
熟悉的味道，看到后面小心翼翼地不敢看
0 有用 hcccccc 2023-02-12 00:31:57 美国
模仿Jack发送How’s it GOING???? 并不意外地进入了垃圾箱
2 有用 青青子衿 2020-01-17 22:30:37
motherless child写的精彩！