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Olive Kitteridge

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Olive est l'épouse du pharmacien de Crosby, une petite ville côtière du Maine. Elle a un fils, Christopher, qu'elle étouffe. Et c'est aussi un professeur de mathématiques brutal et tyrannique, capable, pourtant, d'élans de bonté. Personnalité hors normes, a priori peu aimable, mais ô combien attachante, Olive traverse cette fresque polyphonique où les destins des habitants de Crosby – héros ordinaires – s'entremêlent sur une période de trente ans . Salué outre-Atlantique pour la virtuosité de sa construction et la finesse de son ton, Olive Kitteridge s'inscrit dans la lignée de romans comme Le cœur est un chasseur solitaire, de Carson McCullers, ou Les Corrections, de Jonathan Franzen.

Ce livre a reçu le prix Pulitzer.

Un bijou de psychologie et de délicatesse, comme si Virginia Woolf s'était penchée sur l'épaule d'Elizabeth Strout. André Clavel, L'Express.

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    • Publisher's Weekly

      Starred review from December 10, 2007
      Thirteen linked tales from Strout (Abide with Me
      , etc.) present a heart-wrenching, penetrating portrait of ordinary coastal Mainers living lives of quiet grief intermingled with flashes of human connection. The opening “Pharmacy” focuses on terse, dry junior high-school teacher Olive Kitteridge and her gregarious pharmacist husband, Henry, both of whom have survived the loss of a psychologically damaged parent, and both of whom suffer painful attractions to co-workers. Their son, Christopher, takes center stage in “A Little Burst,” which describes his wedding in humorous, somewhat disturbing detail, and in “Security,” where Olive, in her 70s, visits Christopher and his family in New York. Strout’s fiction showcases her ability to reveal through familiar details—the mother-of-the-groom’s wedding dress, a grandmother’s disapproving observations of how her grandchildren are raised—the seeds of tragedy. Themes of suicide, depression, bad communication, aging and love, run through these stories, none more vivid or touching than “Incoming Tide,” where Olive chats with former student Kevin Coulson as they watch waitress Patty Howe by the seashore, all three struggling with their own misgivings about life. Like this story, the collection is easy to read and impossible to forget. Its literary craft and emotional power will surprise readers unfamiliar with Strout.

    • Publisher's Weekly

      March 24, 2008
      Strout's tale of an aging schoolteacher too obsessed with the deterioration of her little town of Crosby, Maine, to realize the problems plaguing her own life, is read with vigor by Sandra Burr. Burr's reading makes Strout's characters rich and wonderful in every way, bringing a well-rounded originality to each one. As Olive, Burr's voice slips into a nagging, aged groan that seems perfectly suited for the central character's downtrodden personality. As Olive's husband, Henry, Burr is understated yet powerful. She understands this poignant tale so entirely that her reading becomes reality for the listener. There is a certain melancholy that infects this story, and Burr is poised to capture and relate it to her audience. Simultaneous release with the Random House hardcover (Reviews, Dec. 10).

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