Olive Kitteridge
Olive Kitteridge, a retired teacher, deplores the changes taking place in her little town of Crosby, Maine.
| Main Author: | Strout, Elizabeth. |
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| Other Authors: | Burr, Sandra. (Narrator) |
| Format: | Audiobooks Audiobook (CD) |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Grand Haven, MI :
Brilliance Audio,
p2008.
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| Series: |
Olive Kitteridge ;
1. |
| Subjects: |
| Summary: |
Olive Kitteridge, a retired teacher, deplores the changes taking place in her little town of Crosby, Maine. |
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| Item Description: |
Unabridged. Compact disc. |
| Physical Description: |
9 sound discs (10 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. |
| ISBN: |
9781423350033 1423350030 |
| Author Notes: |
Strout wrote Amy and Isabelle over the course of six or seven years, which when published was shortlisted for the 2000 Orange Prize and nominated for the 2000 PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction. Amy and Isabelle was made into a television movie starring Elisabeth Shue and was produced by Oprah Winfrey's studio, Harpo Films. Strout was a NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities) professor at Colgate University during the Fall Semester of 2007, where she taught creative writing. She was also on the faculty of the MFA program at Queens University of Charlotte in Charlotte, North Carolina. In 2009 Strout was honored with a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for Olive Kitteridge, a collection of connected short stories she wrote about a woman and her immediate family who lived on the coast of Maine. Strout also wrote The Burgess Boys in 2013 which made The New York Times Best Seller List. Ms. Strout's title, My name is Lucy Barton, made the New York Times Best Seller List in 2016. Her newest title, Anything is Possible (2017), won the 2018 Story Prize. (Bowker Author Biography) |