Olive, Again (Oprah's Book Club)

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Strout, Elizabeth

  • Titel: Olive, Again (Oprah's Book Club) : A Novel / Elizabeth Strout. Narrator: Kimberly Farr
  • Person(en): Strout, Elizabeth [Verfasser*in] ; Farr, Kimberly
  • Ausgabe: Unabridged
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Originalsprache: Englisch
  • Umfang: 1 online resource (12 audio files) : digital 12:14:32
  • Erschienen: New York : Random House Audio, 2019
  • ISBN/Preis: 9780593147375 (sound recording)
  • Schlagwörter: Fiction ; Literature ; Electronic books
  • Anmerkungen: Unabridged Requires OverDrive Listen (file size: N/A KB) or OverDrive app (file size: 344360 KB).

Inhalt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout continues the life of her beloved Olive Kitteridge, a character who has captured the imaginations of millions. "Strout managed to make me love this strange woman I'd never met, who I knew nothing about. What a terrific writer she is."—Zadie Smith, The Guardian "Just as wonderful as the original . . . Olive, Again poignantly reminds us that empathy, a requirement for love, helps make life 'not unhappy.'"—NPR NAMED ONE OF FALL'S MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS BY People Time Entertainment Weekly Vanity Fair BuzzFeed Vogue USA Today • The Seattle Times HuffPost Newsday Vulture Bustle Vox PopSugar Good Housekeeping LitHub Book Riot 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 us—in Strout's words—"to bear the burden of the mystery with as much grace as we can." Praise for Olive, Again "Olive is a brilliant creation not only because of her eternal cantankerousness but because she's as brutally candid with herself about her shortcomings as she is with others. Her honesty makes people strangely willing to confide in her, and the raw power of Ms. Strout's writing comes from these unvarnished exchanges, in which charac