Olive, again : a novel
Record details
- ISBN: 0593147340
- ISBN: 9780593147344
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Physical Description:
10 audio discs (12 1/2 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
sound disc - Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: New York, New York : Random House Audio, an imprint of the Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group, [2019]
- Copyright: ℗2019
Content descriptions
General Note: | Title from container. Compact discs. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Arrested -- Labor -- Cleaning -- Motherless child -- Helped -- Light -- The walk -- Pedicure -- Exiles -- The poet -- The end of the Civil War days -- Heart -- Friend. |
Restrictions on Access Note: | Restricted to PRINT DISABLED Patrons. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Kimberly Farr. |
Summary, etc.: | A sequel to Olive Kitteridge finds Olive struggling to understand herself while bonding with a teen suffering from loss, a woman who gives birth unexpectedly, a nurse harboring a longtime crush and a lawyer who resists an unwanted inheritance. |
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Subject: | Retired teachers Fiction Older women Fiction City and town life Fiction Maine Fiction FICTION / Sagas City and town life Retired teachers Maine |
Genre: | Audiobooks. Fiction. Linked stories. Novels. Audiobooks. |
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Available copies
- 12 of 12 copies available at Bibliomation. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Rowayton Library.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 12 total copies.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Rowayton Library | CD STR (Text) | 33625138944298 | Adult Book on CD | Available | - |
Electronic resources
Olive, Again (Oprah's Book Club) : A Novel
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Olive, Again (Oprah's Book Club) : A Novel
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK * Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout continues the life of her beloved Olive Kitteridge, a character who has captured the imaginations of millions. "Strout managed to make me love this strange woman I'd never met, who I knew nothing about. What a terrific writer she is."--Zadie Smith, The Guardian "Just as wonderful as the original . . . Olive, Again poignantly reminds us that empathy, a requirement for love, helps make life 'not unhappy.'"--NPR NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY PEOPLE AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Time * Vogue * NPR * The Washington Post * Chicago Tribune * Vanity Fair * Entertainment Weekly * BuzzFeed * Esquire * Real Simple * Good Housekeeping * The New York Public Library * The Guardian * Evening Standard * Kirkus Reviews * Publishers Weekly * BookPage Prickly, wry, resistant to change yet ruthlessly honest and deeply empathetic, Olive Kitteridge is "a compelling life force" ( San Francisco Chronicle ). The New Yorker has said that Elizabeth Strout "animates the ordinary with an astonishing force," and she has never done so more clearly than in these pages, where the iconic Olive struggles to understand not only herself and her own life but the lives of those around her in the town of Crosby, Maine. Whether with a teenager coming to terms with the loss of her father, a young woman about to give birth during a hilariously inopportune moment, a nurse who confesses a secret high school crush, or a lawyer who struggles with an inheritance she does not want to accept, the unforgettable Olive will continue to startle us, to move us, and to inspire us--in Strout's words--"to bear the burden of the mystery with as much grace as we can." Praise for Olive, Again "Olive is a brilliant creation not only because of her eternal cantankerousness but because she's as brutally candid with herself about her shortcomings as she is with others. Her honesty makes people strangely willing to confide in her, and the raw power of Ms. Strout's writing comes from these unvarnished exchanges, in which characters reveal themselves in all of their sadness and badness and confusion. . . . The great, terrible mess of living is spilled out across the pages of this moving book. Ms. Strout may not have any answers for it, but she isn't afraid of it either." -- The Wall Street Journal