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#1 New York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout continues the life of her beloved Olive Kitteridge, a character who has captured the imaginations of millions of readers. Prickly, wry, resistant to change yet ruthlessly honest and deeply empathetic, Olive Kitteridge is “a compelling life force” (San Francisco Chronicle). The New Yorker has said that Elizabeth Strout “animates the ordinary with an astonishing force,” and she has never done so more clearly than in these pages, where the iconic Olive struggles to understand not only herself and her own life but the lives of those around her in the town of Crosby, Maine. Whether with a teenager coming to terms with the loss of her father, a young woman about to give birth during a hilariously inopportune moment, a nurse who confesses a secret high school crush, or a lawyer who struggles with an inheritance she does not want to accept, the unforgettable Olive will continue to startle us, to move us, and to inspire moments of transcendent grace.

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Elizabeth Strout is the author of several novels, including: Abide with Me, a national bestseller and BookSense pick, and Amy and Isabelle, which won the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize, and was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize in England. In 2009 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for he...

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“I’mscaredtodeathofdying.Ireallyam.Icanfeelitcomingsofast—whoosh!Jesus,itallgoessofastthesedays.Butyouknowwhat?”“What?”“Idon’treallycare,either.Imean,aboutdying.It’ssostrange,Bobby.BecauseononehandIhavethesemoments—orIhadthesemomentsbeforeIgotalldopedup—ofjustsheerterror.Terror.Andattheverysametime,Ikindoffeellike,Yeah,okay,let’sgo,I’mready.”

——引自第193页

“Youknow,Ijustwanttosay,Mrs.Kitteridgetoldus,yearsagointhatmathclass—Iwillneverforgetit—onedayshejuststoppedamathproblemshewasdoingontheboardandsheturnedaroundandshesaidtotheclass,‘Youallknowwhoyouare.Ifyoujustlookatyourselfandlistentoyourself,youknowexactlywhoyouare.Anddon’tforgetit.’AndIneverdidforgetit.Itkindofgavemecourageovertheyearsbecauseshewasright;IdidknowwhoIwas.”

——引自第238页