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Olive Kitteridge por Elizabeth Strout
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Olive Kitteridge (edição 2008)

por Elizabeth Strout (Autor)

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At the edge of the continent, in the small town of Crosby, Maine, lives Olive Kitteridge, a retired schoolteacher who deplores the changes in her town and in the world at large but doesn't always recognize the changes in those around her.
Membro:Linda_Louise
Título:Olive Kitteridge
Autores:Elizabeth Strout (Autor)
Informação:Random House Trade Paperbacks (2008), Edition: Illustrated, 336 pages
Coleções:A sua biblioteca
Avaliação:*****
Etiquetas:fiction, pulitzer-prize, age-aging

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This was a hard book for me to read! It basically is about one person from different views! It seemed to drag in spots! ( )
  MommaTAS | Mar 22, 2024 |
Omtalen af Strouts roman, der vandt Pulitzer prisen for fiktion i 2009, har typisk fokuseret på dens hovedperson. Olive Kitteridge. Hun beskrives som en fysisk stor kvinde og en kantet personlighed, der er forfriskende, fordi der er så få af den type karakterer i litteraturen. Det er er en helt fair karakteristik, for Olive er vitterligt et vigtigt særkende for bogen – men hun er alligevel ikke så altdominerende som den lige så kantede Birgithe i Katrine Marie Guldagers roman fra sidste år.

Olive Kitteridge har i mange år undervist i matematik på den lokale skole i Crosby, Maine, hvor hun bor sammen med sin mand Henry, der har drevet et apotek i en nærliggende by. Sammen har de sønnen Christopher, som Olive elsker højt, men som hun måske også har hegnet mere ind med sin personlighed end godt er. I romanens nutid er ægteparret ved at tage hul på pensionisttilværelsen, og selvom der er tilbageblik – det første kapitel handler f.eks. om Henrys stormende men aldrig udtrykte forelskelse i en tidligere ansat på apoteket – så er fokus rettet på tilværelsen, når man har passeret de 60.

Det er nye bekymringer, der kommer til: kroppens skrøbelighed og forholdet til det voksne barn. Det sidste bliver vanskeligt, da han finder en kone og flytter helt til Californien med hende. Det er nemt for læseren at se, at sønnen langt om længe er i gang med en frigørelsesproces, men Olive kan ikke forstå, hvad hun har gjort forkert, så hun bliver bitter og vred.

Olive er romanens omdrejningspunkt, men det er også et portræt af en typisk amerikansk provinsby. Fordi hun har været lærer på skolen og fordi hun er så karakteristisk, har alle hende som et referencepunkt, men der er kapitler, hvor hun kun optræder som en bifigur. Der er f.eks. historien om Harmon, der har mistet gnisten i sit eget ægteskab, og derfor har fundet sammen med enken Daisy, som han besøger, når han har hentet donoughts. En da dukker en tynd pige op hos Daisy, hun lider af en alvorlig spiseforstyrrelse og har samtidig fået sig en skidt kæreste, der har trukket hende med ind i kriminalitet. Pludselig banker Olive på døren, fordi hun er ude at samle ind til velgørenhed, og så udvikler historien sig derfra.

Alderdommen indebærer selvfølgelig risiko for tab. Når par bliver gamle sammen, vil den ene på et tidspunkt falde fra og efterlade den anden med en truende ensomhed. Henry og Olive ser det blandt deres jævnaldrende, og selvom i hvert fald Henry er grundlæggende optimistisk, så sker det alligevel. Spørgsmålet er så, om der findes et håb om nærhed i den sene alder. For nogen gør der givetvis, for andre måske ikke.

Romanen er især optaget af hverdagslivets dramaer, men der er også flere episoder, hvor vold og kriminalitet stikker hovedet frem. Ud af det blå bliver Olive og Henry involveret i et gidseldrama, i en anden historie står en psykisk ustabil mor pludselig og skyder efter svigersønnen i skovbrynet, og så er der familien Larkin, der lever isoleret, fordi deres søn har begået et mor mange år tidligere. Det virker voldsomt, og jeg kunne ikke lade være med at spekulere over, om det afspejler reelle forskelle mellem USA og Danmark eller om Strout ”bare” har tilsat det som lidt ekstra litterært krydderi.

Olive Kitteridge er en virkelig god roman. Strout skriver både personer og natur frem i et nuanceret sprog. Alle figurer er sammensatte og troværdige, og det er meget nemt at se det lille samfund for sig. Det er også en fornøjelse at være i selskab med Olive og de andre gnavpotter, for her kommer der virkelig kød og blod på en livsfase, som de mange ungdomsfikserede forfattere ikke har blik for.a ( )
  Henrik_Madsen | Mar 10, 2024 |
This was another book that I got for a college class. The professor only assigned certain sections, but after having read the whole thing, I wish we had read it all back then. Each story provides insight into Olive and the lives of the other citizens that builds strongly upon each other. If I had to pick a theme of this book, it would be that it is filled with love stories and heartbreak. I was surprised how many of the stories had to do with at least one partner cheating on the other. I did appreciate that all of the main/pov characters were older. I overall enjoyed it, but its probably not a book I'll pick up again soon. Maybe in a few years. ( )
  BarnesBookshelf | Feb 21, 2024 |
Review of Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

I decided to read this book now, so long after its original publication, because Elizabeth Strout has been recommended to me by so many trusted friends. When the book was new, I was put off by the short story format, and I’ve always had plenty else on my TBR. But as I approached Olive this time, I found that I did in fact like the separate stories which are unified by their focus on Olive and by their setting in the small town of Crossby, Maine. I found Strout’s writing clear and pleasant to read. The stories are well drawn scenes, that made me laugh at times, cringe with embarassment at others, sometimes even flinch with pain. But what I enjoyed most about the book was the character of Olive herself. From the outset, she is an unpleasant woman, not very sociable. She suffers from a wide streak of paranoia. Much of the time she treats her husband terribly, and she manages to totally alienate her son who grows up afraid of her; she is a controlling, demanding, and irritable mother. Many of her students (she teaches math) fear her as well, though some do appreciate her as a teacher. The remarkable thing about her characterization is that it was not long before I began to like Olive, and by the last stories, I was rooting for her. It gradually becomes clear that she loves her family fiercely and loyally. I really want her to figure out how to repair her rifts with them.
I rated Olive Kitteridge at 3.5 stars. I enjoyed reading it and will be reading more of Elizabeth Strout. ( )
  dianelouise100 | Feb 13, 2024 |
An ordinary woman tries to make sense of life. The author shows her experiences and those she interacted with, like a Virginia Woolf novel. Such incredible writing and character depth. ( )
  lneukirch | Feb 4, 2024 |
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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.
adicionada por SqueakyChu | editarThe New York Times, Louisa Thomas (Apr 20, 2008)
 
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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Strout, Elizabethautor principaltodas as ediçõesconfirmado
Blanchette, Dana LeighDesigner da capaautor secundárioalgumas ediçõesconfirmado
Burr, SandraNarradorautor secundárioalgumas ediçõesconfirmado
Castoldi, SilviaTradutorautor secundárioalgumas ediçõesconfirmado
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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.
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