Audiobook Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout (2008, Unabridged MP3 CD)

Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout (2008, Unabridged MP3 CD)

MP3 format, ready for your portable listening device (iPod, etc) or your computer. Not for equipment that does not play MP3 format CDs.

This audiobook is on one MP3 CD. It is read by Sandra Barr. It plays for approximately 10 hours, and cost $24.95 originally. The disc seems like new. The bar code area of the art work on the rear has been scraped away, blemishing the paper.

From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. 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. (Apr.)
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