Olive Kitteridge - Elizabeth Strout [125]
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
ELIZABETH STROUT is the author of Abide with Me, a national bestseller and Book Sense pick, and Amy and Isabelle, which won the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize. She has also been a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize in England. Her short stories have been published in a number of magazines, including The New Yorker and O: The Oprah Magazine. She is on the faculty of the MFA program at Queens University in Charlotte, North Carolina, and lives in New York City.
Also by Elizabeth Strout
Abide with Me
Amy and Isabelle
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2008 by Elizabeth Strout
All rights reserved.
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Excerpts from Dream Songs #235 and #384 from The Dream Songs by John Berryman. Copyright © 1969 by John Berryman. Copyright renewed 1997 by Kate Donahue Berryman. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC.
“A Different Road” was published in Tin House in 2007. “A Little Burst” was published in The New Yorker in 1998. “Winter Concert” was published in Ms. in 1999. “Basket of Trips” was published in O: The Oprah Magazine in 2000. “Ship in a Bottle” was published as “Running Away” in Seventeen in 1992. “Criminal” was published in South Carolina Review in 1994.
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Title page photograph by Pierre deJordy Blanchette
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