Olive kitteridge the 2008 novel in stories by elizabeth stout did not disappoint. Olive is brisk to the point of incivility.
Olive kitteridge is a misanthropic and strict but well meaning retired schoolteacher who lives in the fictional seaside town of crosby maine.
Olive kitteridge plot. It won the 2009 pulitzer prize for fiction and is a rich and highly nuanced reading experience that shines a. Olive kitteridge gently insists that even a life as quietly bitterly lived as olive s is a big life and director lisa cholodenko s film is a wistful triumph in that regard. The novel appears to be a collection of short stories on the surface but the unifying element takes the form of the titular character olive kitteridge.
She appears to never censor her thoughts before they emerge as words and often what she s thinking is harsh and judgmental but also funny with the kind of fleeting observations that might cross our. When i read olive kitteridge in 2008 i remember thinking how unusual it was to encounter a heroine with so many traits we think of as unlikable. The story follows the main character olive kitteridge as she deals with the daily life of living in a small town in crosby maine.
With frances mcdormand richard jenkins ken cheeseman ann dowd. Published in 2008 olive kitteridge is an unconventional novel by elizabeth strout that interlinks 13 tales about the people of crosby maine. As a high school math teacher olive kitteridge is responsible for teach many of the children that live in the town once they are old enough to attend high.
It won the 2009 pulitzer prize for fiction and was a finalist for the 2008 national book critics. As the titular character olive kitteridge is the protagonist of the novel. She is married to henry kitteridge a kind considerate man who runs a pharmacy downtown and has a troubled son named christopher who grows up to be a podiatrist.
As a former crosby math teacher many of the town s inhabitants are olive s former students. Olive kitteridge 2008 is a novel by american author elizabeth strout. Olive kitteridge is a novel by author elizabeth strout.
She makes an appearance in every chapter though some chapters focus entirely on olive and her immediate family while others feature her in the background. A middle school math teacher olive and her marriage with henry which spans 25 years. It presents a portrait of the title character and a number of recurring characters in the coastal town of crosby maine it takes the form of 13 short stories that are interrelated but discontinuous in terms of narrative.
Her husband henry is a pharmacist and her son christopher begins the book as a teenager in high school. Olive kitteridge is told as a series of short stories involving sometimes front and center other times only in the periphery olive kitteridge a math teacher living in the fictional coastal town of crosby maine.
