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Elizabeth Strout

Autor(a) de Olive Kitteridge

16+ Works 26,142 Membros 1,678 Reviews 52 Favorited

About the Author

Elizabeth Strout (born January 6, 1956) is an American author of fiction. She was born in Portland, Maine. After graduating from Bates College, she spent a year in Oxford, England. In 1982 she graduated with honors, and received both a law degree from the Syracuse University College of Law and a mostrar mais Certificate of Gerontology from the Syracuse School of Social Work. 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) mostrar menos

Séries

Obras de Elizabeth Strout

Olive Kitteridge (2008) 9,868 cópias
My Name Is Lucy Barton (2016) 3,657 cópias
The Burgess Boys (2013) 2,390 cópias
Amy and Isabelle (1998) 2,192 cópias
Olive, Again (2019) 2,044 cópias
Anything Is Possible (2017) 1,901 cópias
Oh William! (2021) 1,438 cópias
Abide with Me (2006) 1,354 cópias
Lucy by the Sea (2022) 1,003 cópias
The Best American Short Stories 2013 (2013) — Editor — 276 cópias
Tell Me Everything: A Novel (2024) 5 cópias
A Different Road 1 exemplar(es)
The Fort 1 exemplar(es)
The Family Fortune 1 exemplar(es)

Associated Works

The Beautiful Summer (1940) — Introdução, algumas edições566 cópias
Ethan Frome / Summer (1982) — Introdução, algumas edições301 cópias
The Best American Mystery Stories 2008 (2008) — Contribuinte — 168 cópias
It Occurs to Me That I Am America: New Stories and Art (2018) — Contribuinte — 71 cópias
Providence Noir (2015) — Contribuinte — 45 cópias
Dream Me Home Safely: Writers on Growing Up in America (2003) — Contribuinte — 38 cópias
The Stories of Frederick Busch (2013) — Editor, algumas edições35 cópias

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Conhecimento Comum

Data de nascimento
1956-01-06
Sexo
female
Nacionalidade
USA
Local de nascimento
Portland, Maine, USA
Locais de residência
Portland, Maine, USA
New York, New York, USA
Durham, New Hampshire, USA
Brunswick, Maine, USA
Educação
Bates College (BA, 1977)
Syracuse University (JD, 1982)
Ocupação
faculty (MFA program, Queens University)
fiction writer
lecturer (Creative Writing ∙ Colgate University)
Organizações
Queens University of Charlotte
Agente
Molly Friedrich (Aaron Priest Literary Agency)
Pequena biografia
Elizabeth Strout (born January 6, 1956) is a US-American novelist and author. She is widely known for her works in literary fiction and her descriptive characterization. Born and raised in Portland, Maine, her experiences in her youth served as inspiration for her novels–the fictional "Shirley Falls, Maine" is the setting of four of her seven novels.

Strout's first novel, Amy and Isabelle (1998) met with widespread critical acclaim, became a national bestseller, and was adapted into a movie starring Elisabeth Shue. Her second novel, Abide with Me (2006), received critical acclaim but ultimately failed to be recognized to the extent of her debut novel. Two years later, Strout wrote and published Olive Kitteridge (2008), to critical and commercial success grossing nearly $25 million with over one million copies sold as of May 2017. The novel won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. The book was adapted into a multi Emmy Award-winning mini series and became a New York Times bestseller.

Five years later, she published The Burgess Boys (2013), which became a national bestseller. My Name Is Lucy Barton (2016) was met with international acclaim and topped the New York Times bestseller list. Lucy Barton later became the main character in Strout's 2017 novel, Anything is Possible. A sequel to Olive Kitteridge, titled Olive, Again, was published in 2019.

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This was a hard book for me to read! It basically is about one person from different views! It seemed to drag in spots!
 
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MommaTAS | outras 615 resenhas | Mar 22, 2024 |
Omtalen af Strouts roman, der vandt Pulitzer prisen for fiktion i 2009, har typisk fokuseret på dens hovedperson. Olive Kitteridge. Hun beskrives som en fysisk stor kvinde og en kantet personlighed, der er forfriskende, fordi der er så få af den type karakterer i litteraturen. Det er er en helt fair karakteristik, for Olive er vitterligt et vigtigt særkende for bogen – men hun er alligevel ikke så altdominerende som den lige så kantede Birgithe i Katrine Marie Guldagers roman fra sidste år.

Olive Kitteridge har i mange år undervist i matematik på den lokale skole i Crosby, Maine, hvor hun bor sammen med sin mand Henry, der har drevet et apotek i en nærliggende by. Sammen har de sønnen Christopher, som Olive elsker højt, men som hun måske også har hegnet mere ind med sin personlighed end godt er. I romanens nutid er ægteparret ved at tage hul på pensionisttilværelsen, og selvom der er tilbageblik – det første kapitel handler f.eks. om Henrys stormende men aldrig udtrykte forelskelse i en tidligere ansat på apoteket – så er fokus rettet på tilværelsen, når man har passeret de 60.

Det er nye bekymringer, der kommer til: kroppens skrøbelighed og forholdet til det voksne barn. Det sidste bliver vanskeligt, da han finder en kone og flytter helt til Californien med hende. Det er nemt for læseren at se, at sønnen langt om længe er i gang med en frigørelsesproces, men Olive kan ikke forstå, hvad hun har gjort forkert, så hun bliver bitter og vred.

Olive er romanens omdrejningspunkt, men det er også et portræt af en typisk amerikansk provinsby. Fordi hun har været lærer på skolen og fordi hun er så karakteristisk, har alle hende som et referencepunkt, men der er kapitler, hvor hun kun optræder som en bifigur. Der er f.eks. historien om Harmon, der har mistet gnisten i sit eget ægteskab, og derfor har fundet sammen med enken Daisy, som han besøger, når han har hentet donoughts. En da dukker en tynd pige op hos Daisy, hun lider af en alvorlig spiseforstyrrelse og har samtidig fået sig en skidt kæreste, der har trukket hende med ind i kriminalitet. Pludselig banker Olive på døren, fordi hun er ude at samle ind til velgørenhed, og så udvikler historien sig derfra.

Alderdommen indebærer selvfølgelig risiko for tab. Når par bliver gamle sammen, vil den ene på et tidspunkt falde fra og efterlade den anden med en truende ensomhed. Henry og Olive ser det blandt deres jævnaldrende, og selvom i hvert fald Henry er grundlæggende optimistisk, så sker det alligevel. Spørgsmålet er så, om der findes et håb om nærhed i den sene alder. For nogen gør der givetvis, for andre måske ikke.

Romanen er især optaget af hverdagslivets dramaer, men der er også flere episoder, hvor vold og kriminalitet stikker hovedet frem. Ud af det blå bliver Olive og Henry involveret i et gidseldrama, i en anden historie står en psykisk ustabil mor pludselig og skyder efter svigersønnen i skovbrynet, og så er der familien Larkin, der lever isoleret, fordi deres søn har begået et mor mange år tidligere. Det virker voldsomt, og jeg kunne ikke lade være med at spekulere over, om det afspejler reelle forskelle mellem USA og Danmark eller om Strout ”bare” har tilsat det som lidt ekstra litterært krydderi.

Olive Kitteridge er en virkelig god roman. Strout skriver både personer og natur frem i et nuanceret sprog. Alle figurer er sammensatte og troværdige, og det er meget nemt at se det lille samfund for sig. Det er også en fornøjelse at være i selskab med Olive og de andre gnavpotter, for her kommer der virkelig kød og blod på en livsfase, som de mange ungdomsfikserede forfattere ikke har blik for.a
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Henrik_Madsen | outras 615 resenhas | Mar 10, 2024 |
Lucy Barton returns in this fourth edition to the Amgash series, Lucy reflects on the virus which resulted in a pandemic. She thinks about how this unexpected event was scary and created a lot of uncertainty. People were wearing masks and needing to maintain “social distancing” from others. It was such a reminder of the Flu Epidemic in 1918. Although William is her ex-husband, he has always remained her closest friend. He takes her to a house on the Maine coast to help alleviate her worries. Everyone needed to “lock down” where they were to avoid transmission or vulnerability to the virus. All this together time provides a unique opportunity to reminisce on the past both good and bad such as their kids and infidelities. They discussed people in their lives over the years and how far they have come from meager beginnings. Together they conclude how their lives have changed over the years and their shared memories sustain their continued connection.… (mais)
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marquis784 | outras 66 resenhas | Mar 6, 2024 |
No real plot here – just a couple of years in the life of an older writer/mom (Lucy) who relocates from New York City to the coast of Maine during the pandemic and, while there, works through the process of grieving for her recently deceased husband, reconciling with an ex-husband, redefining herself as a mother, refocusing her priorities, and reflecting on the extent to which our lives are controlled by free will vs. predetermination. The tale spans the scary first days of the pandemic through the George Floyd riots and the Capital insurrection, wrapping up just as vaccines are becoming widely available.

The various subplots are united by one common theme: Everyone needs to feel like they matter. Wives need to feel heard by their husbands, lovers need to feel valued by their inamoratas, parents need to feel needed by their children, scholars need to feel appreciated for their expertise, writers need to feel worthy by their readers, all the disenfranchised folks of the world - blacks, MAGAs, poor people, etc. - need to feel heard by … someone. Otherwise, the world fills with angry, lonely, betrayed people. Just so you don’t miss the point Strout’s trying to make, almost every episode concludes with someone uttering some version of “I understand.”

This was my first book by Strout, so it’s hard for me to say how much context I missed out on because I hadn’t read the author’s My Name is Lucy Barton or Olive Kitteridge, both of which are extensively referenced here. Also impossible for me to know whether the narrative voice she adopts here – childlike, and naïve – is specific to Lucy or a Strout signature. Admit that it was hard to regard protagonist Barton as a prestigious novelist given her unsophisticated language (for example, referring to a speaker a “the lecturing man”), grammar, and prose. Am guessing Stroud’s intent is to invite us into the tale by lowering any bars that more sophisticated prose might erect – everyday language for an everyday tale about everyday themes, like loneliness, regret, grief, and love. Mostly worked for me: I found this to be graceful and unconventional, though perhaps not something I’ll remember a year from now.
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Dorritt | outras 66 resenhas | Feb 28, 2024 |

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Obras
16
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Membros
26,142
Popularidade
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Avaliação
3.9
Resenhas
1,678
ISBNs
385
Idiomas
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Favorito
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