Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout, a collection of interwoven stories centered on a cantankerous retired teacher in rural Maine, was the winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize in fiction. The work was Strout's third novel in the nine years since her debut, Amy and Isabelle.
Kitteridge the Character
Strout portrays the book's titular character, Olive Kitteridge, as blunt and unsparing, a decision that has drawn a variety of responses from readers, not all of them positive.USA Today: 'Olive Kitteridge': Intertwined lives, stories (April 23, 2008) In an August 2008 interview, Strout said that she doesn't mind if people don't like her heroine, as long as they're intrigued by the book.The Morning News: Elizabeth Strout interviewed by Robert Birnbaum (August 26, 2008)
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Elizabeth Strout
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Random House
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March 25, 2008
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288 pages
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Price in hardcover
$25
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Set in rural Maine
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Title character is a retired seventh grade teacher
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Strout's 1999 debut, Amy and Isabelle, won the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize, among other awardsRandom House: Author Spotlight: Elizabeth Strout
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Strout's work has been published in ''The New Yorker'' and ''O
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