Elizabeth Strout: Olive Kitteridge (2008, Brilliance Audio on CD)
Audio CD
English language
Published March 25, 2008 by Brilliance Audio on CD.
Olive Kitteridge (2008) is a novel by American author Elizabeth Strout. The novel provides 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. It won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award. HBO produced a four-part miniseries based on the novel featuring Frances McDormand in the title role, which aired on November 2 and 3, 2014. The series won eight awards at the 2015 Primetime Emmys. A sequel to the novel, titled Olive, Again, was published on October 15, 2019 by Random House.
I started trying to read this novel in December (23) but it defeats me. Perhaps it is declining RAM in my brain, but it seems to me that pointillism was fine for Seurat but as a writing technique it requires keeping too many balls in the air. I fell off the horse when Strout invented a new tree species.
