Summary & Study Guide Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

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This study guide includes the following sections: Plot Summary, Chapter Summaries & Analysis, Characters, Objects/Places, Themes, Style, Quotes, and Topics for Discussion.

39 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 21, 2013

Reviews

[Karen Mitchell · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting but somewhat boring. Surprised the series won many awards.

[Liza · Rating 4 out of 5]

That was a good book. I liked the main character Olive and others as well. The stories are both sad and relieving. You just dive into them and discover that there are no perfect lives and people in the world - just different stories that consist of countless details.

[Sandra · Rating 5 out of 5]

This story brings you right in and up close to the characters, who could be any one of us. Loved it.

[Stephanie Young · Rating 3 out of 5]

Was a bit confusing and didn't hold together well. Not one of my favorites.

[Peter Gallo · Rating 5 out of 5]

Olive Kitteridge is one of the best works of fiction I have ever read. Among other things, it is a masterpiece of the linked story form (aka Composite Novel). The character of Olive Kitteridge is brilliantly developed. At times she seem like an anti-hero, at other times she embraces a moral code that gives her almost a classical heroic stance. I'm obviously celebrating her complexity.

[Reader · Rating 4 out of 5]

Short stories with Olive playing a part in all of these. Olive is a lille difficult to like but that's what made this so enjoyable. Slowly you just start to accept Olive as she is - rough around the edges and very human

[Page · Rating 4 out of 5]

Short stories with Olive playing a part in all of these. Olive is a lille difficult to like but that's what made this so enjoyable. Slowly you just start to accept Olive as she is - rough around the edges and very human

[Emma · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love these tales of this woman, she is both difficult and fragile and written so brilliantly.

[Linda Fauth · Rating 5 out of 5]

Interesting perspective on relationships and the entrance needed to persevere!

[Thomas P. · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent book of short stories, tied together by Olive, the main character.

[Linda Watkins · Rating 3 out of 5]

Depressing but written in an interesting way. Each chapter is about a different person in the little town and how Olive interacts in their life.

[Jan Finkelstein]

It was very good.

[Cheryl · Rating 4 out of 5]

Excellent! Loved the vignette's of individuals in the small Maine town - fascinating characters