Elizabeth Strout "animates the ordinary with an astonishing force," wrote "The New Yorker" on the publication of her Pulitzer Prize-winning "Olive Kitteridge." The "San Francisco Chronicle" praised Strout's "magnificent gift for humanizing characters." Now the acclaimed author returns with a stunnin[...]
National Bestseller
In her stunning first novel, Amy and Isabelle, Elizabeth Strout evokes a teenager's alienation from her distant mother?and a parent's rage at the discovery of her daughter's sexual secrets. In most ways, Isabelle and Amy are like any mother and her 16-year-old daughter, a [...]
"As our vision becomes more global, our storytelling is stretching in many ways. Stories increasingly change point of view, switch location, and sometimes pack as much material as a short novel might," writes guest editor Elizabeth Strout. "It's the variety of voices that most indicates the increasi[...]
From the Orange Prize-shortlisted author of AMYISABELLE, a deeply moving story of love, abandonment, and the peril of family secrets...[...]
In the wake of the tragic death of his beautiful and independent young wife, Reverend Tyler Caskey, a New England minister, struggles to hold together his own life, his family, and his town, while dealing with his personal anger, grief, and loss of faith. By the author of Amy and Isabelle. Reader's [...]
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE
At times stern, at other times patient, at times perceptive, at other times in sad denial, Olive Kitteridge, a retired schoolteacher, deplores the changes in her little town of Crosby, Maine, and in the world at large, but she doesn't always recognize the changes in[...]
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE - SOON TO BE AN HBO MINISERIES
In a voice more powerful and compassionate than ever before, "New York Times" bestselling author Elizabeth Strout binds together thirteen rich, luminous narratives into a book with the heft of a novel, through the presence of one larger[...]
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE
In a voice more powerful and compassionate than ever before, "New York Times" bestselling author Elizabeth Strout binds together thirteen rich, luminous narratives into a book with the heft of a novel, through the presence of one larger-than-life, unforgettable chara[...]
"NEW YORK TIMES "BESTSELLER
Elizabeth Strout "animates the ordinary with an astonishing force," wrote "The New Yorker" on the publication of her Pulitzer Prize-winning "Olive Kitteridge." The "San Francisco Chronicle" praised Strout's "magnificent gift for humanizing characters." Now the acclaim[...]
Haunted by the freak accident that killed their father when they were children, Jim and Bob Burgess escaped from their Maine hometown of Shirley Falls for New York City as soon as they possibly could. Jim, a sleek, successful corporate lawyer, has belittled his bighearted brother their whole lives,[...]
Two brothers' lives are irrevocably altered when their 19-year-old nephew is embroiled in a scandal of his own making[...]
Haunted by the freak accident that killed their father when they were children, Jim and Bob Burgess escaped from their Maine hometown of Shirley Falls for New York City as soon as they possibly could. Jim has belittled his bighearted brother their whole lives, and Bob, a legal aid attorney who idoli[...]
Elizabeth Strout's acclaimed novel Olive Kitteridge is now the basis for a HBO drama starring Academy Award-winner Frances McDormand. Olive Kitteridge: indomitable, compassionate and often unpredictable. A retired schoolteacher in a small coastal town in Maine, as she grows older she struggles to ma[...]
2009 Pulitzer Prize winner in the Letters, Drama and Music category At the edge of the continent, Crosby, Maine, may seem like nowhere, but seen through this brilliant writer s eyes, it s in essence the whole world, and the lives that are lived there are filled with all of the grand human drama desi[...]
Olive Kitteridge might be described by some as a battle axe or as brilliantly pushy, by others as the kindest person they had ever met. Olive herself has always been certain that she is 100% correct about everything - although, lately, her certitude has been shaken. This indomitable character appear[...]
Compassionate, striking and exquisitely written, Pulitzer prizewinner Elizabeth Strout's debut was shortlisted for the Orange prize[...]
Olive Kitteridge
Elizabet Straut sravnivali s Dzhonom Chiverom, Stejnbekom i Reem Bredberi, nazyvali "Richardom Jejtsom v jubke" i dazhe "amerikanskim Chekhovym"; ona publikovalas v "Nju-Jorkere" i v zhurnale Opry Uinfri "O: The Oprah Magazine", neizmenno vkhodila v spiski bestsellerov po obe storony Atlantiki i sta[...]
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Pulitzerprisvinnare ? boken bakom hyllad HBO-serie
Den Pulitzerprisbelönade novellsamlingen Olive Kitteridge av Elizabeth Strout lämnar ingen oberörd. Nu har den fått ny aktualitet i och med den hyllade HBO-serien med samma namn som hade premiär i november 2014. Det är en bok för alla[...]