Elizabeth Strout - Olive Kitteridge by Unknown, Elizabeth Strout
Thirteen linked tales from Strout (Abide with Me, etc.) present a heart-wrenching, penetrating portrait of ordinary coastal Mainers living lives of quiet grief intermingled with flashes of human connection. The opening Pharmacy focuses on terse, dry junior high-school teacher Olive Kitteridge and her gregarious pharmacist husband, Henry, both of whom have survived the loss of a psychologically damaged parent, and both of whom suffer painful attractions to co-workers. Their son, Christopher, takes center stage in A Little Burst, which describes his wedding in humorous, somewhat disturbing detail, and in Security, where Olive, in her 70s, visits Christopher and his family in New York. Strouts fiction showcases her ability to reveal through familiar detailsthe mother-of-the-grooms wedding dress, a grandmothers disapproving observations of how her grandchildren are raisedthe seeds of tragedy. Themes of suicide, depression, bad communication, aging and love, run through these stories, none
Literature
Elizabeth Strout - Olive Kitteridge
Unknown, Elizabeth Strout
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Thirteen linked tales from Strout (Abide with Me, etc.) present a heart-wrenching, penetrating portrait of ordinary coastal Mainers living lives of quiet grief intermingled with flashes of human connection. The opening Pharmacy focuses on terse, dry junior high-school teacher Olive Kitteridge and her gregarious pharmacist husband, Henry, both of whom have survived the loss of a psychologically damaged parent, and both of whom suffer painful attractions to co-workers. Their son, Christopher, takes center stage in A Little Burst, which describes his wedding in humorous, somewhat disturbing detail, and in Security, where Olive, in her 70s, visits Christopher and his family in New York. Strouts fiction showcases her ability to reveal through familiar detailsthe mother-of-the-grooms wedding dress, a grandmothers disapproving observations of how her grandchildren are raisedthe seeds of tragedy. Themes of suicide, depression, bad communication, aging and love, run through these stories, none
