Title: Olive Kitteridge - Elizabeth Strout - book
Summary :
2009 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Olive is the wife of the pharmacist in Crosby, a small coastal town in Maine. She has a son, Christopher, whom she smothers. And he is also a brutal and tyrannical mathematics teacher, capable, however, of bursts of kindness. An extraordinary personality, a priori unlikable, but oh so endearing, Olive traverses this polyphonic fresco where the destinies of the inhabitants of Crosby – ordinary heroes – intertwine over a period of thirty years. Praised across the Atlantic for the virtuosity of its construction and the finesse of its tone, Olive Kitteridge is in the tradition of novels like The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, by Carson McCullers, or The Corrections, by Jonathan Franzen.
This book won the Pulitzer Prize.
A gem of psychology and delicacy, as if Virginia Woolf had leaned over Elizabeth Strout's shoulder. André Clavel, L'Express.
