The latest masterpiece from the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Number One New York Times bestselling author of Olive Kitteridge, now in paperback.
Elizabeth Strout is the Pulitzer prize-winning author of Olive Kitteridge, as well as The Burgess Boys, a New York Times bestseller, Abide With Me and Amy and Isabelle, which won the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize. She has also been a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize. She lives in New York City and Portland, Maine.
A novel to treasure... Olive, Again, like Strout's first
book, delivers roughly five hours of spine-tingling pleasure. *
Sunday Times *
Olive, Again is a tour de force. With extraordinary economy
of prose - few writers can pack so much emotion, so much emotion,
so much detail into a single paragraph - Strout immerses us in the
lives of her characters, each so authentically drawn as to be
deserving of an entire novel themselves. Compassionate, masterly
and profound, this is a writer at the height of her powers *
Observer *
Emotionally honest, psychologically piercing and ultimately
life-affirming * The i *
Her writing is exquisite; her vision is boundless. What a sublime
book.
A superbly gifted storyteller and a craftswoman in a league of her
own. In Olive, Again, she teaches us that there is always
more to know about human beings, even the ones we are closest
to.
There's no simple truth about human existence, Strout reminds us,
only wonderful, painful complexity. 'Well, that's life,' Olive
says. 'Nothing you can do about it.' Beautifully written and alive
with compassion, at times almost unbearably poignant. A thrilling
book in every way. * Kirkus Reviews (starred review) *
Strout again demonstrates her gift for zeroing in on ordinary
moments in the lives of ordinary people to highlight their
extraordinary resilience * Publishers Weekly, starred review *
She gets better with each book
Glorious * The Times *
A perfect novel * Financial Times *
In Olive Kitteridge, Strout has created one of those rare
characters...so vivid and humorous they seems to take on a life
independent of the story framing them * Guardian *
Elizabeth Strout is... one of the undisputed heavyweights of
generous, clear-eyed domestic realism * Daily Mail *
A special, precious book...full of hope and humanity * Red *
Funny, sad, tender and truthful, this is pure joy * Stylist *
A terrific writer -- Zadie Smith
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