Olive, Again: From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Olive Kitteridge (Olive Kitteridge, 2) - Softcover

Strout, Elizabeth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0241985544 ISBN 13: 9780241985540

Publisher: Penguin, 2020

Synopsis

An extraordinary new novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Number One New York Times bestselling author of Olive Kitteridge and My Name is Lucy Barton

'A superbly gifted storyteller and a craftswoman in a league of her own' Hilary Mantel

Olive, Again follows the blunt, contradictory yet deeply loveable Olive Kitteridge as she grows older, navigating the second half of her life as she comes to terms with the changes - sometimes welcome, sometimes not - in her own existence and in those around her.

Olive adjusts to her new life with her second husband, challenges her estranged son and his family to accept him, experiences loss and loneliness, witnesses the triumphs and heartbreaks of her friends and neighbours in the small coastal town of Crosby, Maine - and, finally, opens herself to new lessons about life.

'A powerful storyteller immersed in the nuances of human relationships' Observer

'She gets better with each book' Maggie O'Farrell

'One of America's finest writers' Sunday Times

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Review

A powerful storyteller immersed in the nuances of human relationships (Observer)

Strout really can write you into a world until you feel you are there with her, in that house, that life, that little Podunk of a place (The Times)

Elizabeth Strout's prose is like words doing jazz (Rachel Joyce)

Writing of this quality comes from a commitment to listening, from a perfect attunement to the human condition, from an attention to reality so exact that it goes beyond a skill and becomes a virtue (Hilary Mantel on 'My Name is Lucy Barton')

Strout, always good, just keeps getting better (Vogue)

A writer at the peak of her powers (Literary Review)

It's hard to believe that a year after the astonishing My Name Is Lucy Barton Elizabeth Strout could bring us another book that is by every measure its equal, but what Strout proves to us again and again is that where she's concerned, anything is possible. This book, this writer, are magnificent. (Ann Patchett on 'Anything is Possible')

Strout animates the ordinary with astonishing force (New Yorker)

About the Author

Elizabeth Strout is the Pulitzer prize-winning author of Olive Kitteridge, as well as The Burgess Boys, a New York Times bestseller, Abide With Me and Amy and Isabelle, which won the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize. She has also been a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize. She lives in New York City and Portland, Maine.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 2020
• ISBN 10: 0241985544
• ISBN 13: 9780241985540
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304