num_pages: 270
description: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize Olive Kitteridge offers profound insights into the human condition  its conflicts its tragedies and joys and the endurance it requires.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 doesnt always recognize the changes in those around her: a lounge musician haunted by a past romance; a former student who has lost the will to live; Olives own adult child who feels tyrannized by her irrational sensitivities; and her husband Henry who finds his loyalty to his marriage both a blessing and a curse. As the townspeople grapple with their problems mild and dire Olive is brought to a deeper understanding of herself and her life  sometimes painfully but always with ruthless honesty.
language: English
title: Olive Kitteridge
publisher: Random House