00000nam a2200000 a 4500 Strout, Elizabeth aut Verfasser/-in Olive Kitteridge Winner of the Pulitzer Prize 2009. Fiction Elizabeth Strout New York Random House 2008 "Perceptive, deeply empathetic . . . Olive is the axis around which these thirteen complex, relentlessly human narratives spin themselves into Elizabeth Strout's unforgettable novel in stories."-O: The Oprah Magazine "Fiction lovers, remember this name: Olive Kitteridge. . . . You'll never forget her. . . . [Elizabeth Strout] constructs her stories with rich irony and moments of genuine surprise and intense emotion. . . . Glorious, powerful stuff."-USA Today "Funny, wicked and remorseful, Mrs. Kitteridge is a compelling life force, a red-blooded original. When she's not onstage, we look forward to her return. The book is a page-turner because of her."-San Francisco Chronicle "Olive Kitteridge still lingers in memory like a treasured photograph."-Seattle Post-Intelligencer "Rarely does a story collection pack such a gutsy emotional punch."-Entertainment Weekly "Strout animates the ordinary with astonishing force. . . . [She] makes us experience not only the terrors of change but also the terrifying hope that change can bring: she plunges us into these churning waters and we come up gasping for air."-The New Yorker 9780812971835 9780812971835 0812971833 0812971833 eng 0 Band 301 S.