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Olive Kitteridge: A Novel in Stories: Elisabeth Strout (udgave 2011)

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13 sammenhængende fortællinger der, med udgangspunkt i en lille by i New England, Maine, og den pensionerede lærerinde Olive Kitteridge, griber ind i hinanden og tilsammen danner et gribende portræt af tilværelsen og dens forviklinger og muligheder
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Titel:Olive Kitteridge: A Novel in Stories: Elisabeth Strout
Forfattere:Elizabeth Strout (Forfatter)
Info:Simons & Schuster (2011), Edition: Reissue, 288 pages
Samlinger:Dit bibliotek
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Nøgleord:Ingen

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Olive Kitteridge : roman af Elizabeth Strout

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    En by i Ohio af Sherwood Anderson (gust, ainsleytewce)
    gust: Ook een verhalenbundel met terugkerende personages in de verschillende verhalen
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    En mand der hedder Ove af Fredrik Backman (_debbie_)
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    Empire Falls af Richard Russo (2810michael)
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    Unaccustomed Earth af Jhumpa Lahiri (chrisharpe)
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    Den anden hånd af Chris Cleave (sarah-e)
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    Our Town af Thornton Wilder (ainsleytewce)
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    Moral Disorder and Other Stories af Margaret Atwood (RidgewayGirl)
    RidgewayGirl: Both tell the life story of a woman in short story form, with compassion and an unflinching eye.
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    Plainsong af Kent Haruf (aprille)
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    The Evening Star af Larry McMurtry (Ciruelo)
    Ciruelo: A strong willed and contrary woman is the foundation of each book.
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    Spoon river antologien af Edgar Lee Masters (ainsleytewce)
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    Pigeliv & kvindeliv af Alice Munro (ainsleytewce)
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    The Edge of Darkness af Mary Ellen Chase (CurrerBell)
    CurrerBell: Maine regionalism can often be at its best when written as a collection of short stories, character studies, or vignettes all united around a single character, as in the case of Elizabeth Strout's Olive Kitteridge, Mary Ellen Chase's The Edge of Darkness, and Sarah Orne Jewett's The Country of the Pointed Firs.… (mere)
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    Tunu af Kim Leine (2810michael)
    2810michael: Mest pga opbygningen med novelleagtige kapitler, der portrætterer en by og dens personer
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    En kvinde, tre mænd og en psykolog af Curtis Sittenfeld (thelittlematchgirl)
    thelittlematchgirl: both are stories about women some people will find unlikeable and some will want to be friends with.
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    The Way to the Cats: A Novel af Yehoshua Kenaz (SqueakyChu)
    SqueakyChu: another crotchety old woman - about whom it's fun to read
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    The Sweet Hereafter af Russell Banks (jbvm)
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    De små ting af Paul Harding (sturlington)
    sturlington: Two Pulitzer Prize winners set in Maine
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    The Civilized World af Susi Wyss (ShortStoryLover)
    ShortStoryLover: While the settings in these books are very different, both are collections of linked stories in which the main characters are revealed through a kind of multi-faceted prism, as the reader experiences them not just through the main characters' points view but also through the points of view of the other characters.… (mere)

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Each of the 13 tales serves as an individual microcosm of small-town life, with its gossip, small kindnesses, and everyday tragedies. Not all the minor characters stand out the way Henry and Olive do, and there are a pile of them to keep straight by the end. I also couldn’t quite place how one story, “Ship in a Bottle,” meshed with the rest. But those are small flaws far outweighed by the book’s compassion and intelligence.
 
The pleasure in reading “Olive Kitteridge” comes from an intense identification with complicated, not always admirable, characters. And there are moments in which slipping into a character’s viewpoint seems to involve the revelation of an emotion more powerful and interesting than simple fellow feeling—a complex, sometimes dark, sometimes life-sustaining dependency on others.
 
Olive Kitteridge might be described by some as a battle axe or as brilliantly pushy, by others as the kindest person they had ever met. Olive herself has always been certain that she is 100% correct about everything - although, lately, her certitude has been shaken. This indomitable character appears at the centre of these narratives that comprise Olive Kitteridge. In each of them, we watch Olive, a retired schoolteacher, as she struggles to make sense of the changes in her life and the lives of those around her always with brutal honesty, if sometimes painfully. Olive will make you laugh, nod in recognition, as well as wince in pain or shed a tear or two. We meet her stoic husband, bound to her in a marriage both broken and strong, and her own son, tyrannised by Olive's overbearing sensitivities. The reader comes away, amazed by this author's ability to conjure this formidable heroine and her deep humanity that infiltrates every page.
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For many years Henry Kitteridge was a pharmacist in the next town over, driving every morning on snowy roads, or rainy roads, or summertime roads, when the wild raspberries shot their new growth in brambles along the last section of town before he turned off to where the wider road led to the pharmacy.
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Olive had sat in her bedroom and wept like a baby, not so much for this country but for the city itself, which had seemed to her to become suddenly no longer a foreign, hardened place, but as fragile as a class of kindergarten children, brave in their terror.
She showed him the library built the year before Henry's stroke, with its cathedral ceiling and skylights. He looked at the books, and she wanted to say, "Stop that," as though he were reading her diary.
Who, who, does not have their basket of trips.
He wanted to put his arms around her, but she had a darkness that seemed to stand beside her like an acquaintance that would not go away. – "Pharmacy"
Angie... felt she had figured something out too late, and that must be the way of life, to get something figured out when it was too late. – "The Piano Player"
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13 sammenhængende fortællinger der, med udgangspunkt i en lille by i New England, Maine, og den pensionerede lærerinde Olive Kitteridge, griber ind i hinanden og tilsammen danner et gribende portræt af tilværelsen og dens forviklinger og muligheder

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