5/10/2023 0 Comments Olive again review![]() ![]() But part of the appeal of this book is that Olive hasn’t changed she is still the irascible older woman in familiar Maine surroundings, whose standard cuss word is “Godfrey.”Īs in the first book, some of the stories can stand alone without Olive. Having met Olive already in the first book, she is no longer a fascinating new creation. ![]() Some old issues – family friction, marital secrets, sickness, death – return once more. In the new collection, Olive is still a contrary woman, blunt and condescending. Singular and wise but rough-edged, she gave a book of short stories the range and depth of a novel. The Olive Kitteridge of Strout’s first collection of stories – a seventh-grade math teacher in a rural Maine town – was a captivating literary original. These stories unfold chronologically, for the most part, as Olive ages from her 70s into her 80s, increasingly hit with the physical and emotional afflictions of her years. The large, gruff woman who was the propelling force in Elizabeth Strout’s book of short stories that won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for fiction – the simply titled Olive Kitteridge – returns in Strout’s new collection of stories, Olive, Again.Īs before, Olive is either a central character or plays a peripheral role in each of the 13 stories. It should come as no surprise that Olive Kitteridge does not mellow with age. ![]()
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