此书由13个可独立成篇、亦相互关联的短小说构成，大部分以缅因州小镇中学数学女教师奥丽芙·基特里奇为主人公——有几篇她虽非中心人物，却也从旁出场。斯特鲁特不留情面，但暗怀同情地描写了她的半生。 书中的基特里奇太太现约60岁，一副暴脾气，谁也别想挡她的道。她动不动就发作，对外人如此，对家人同样——几乎将丈夫和儿子逼疯。她丈夫亨利是镇上的药剂师，性格温良。 在斯特鲁特女士笔下，基太太一辈子伤人，也一辈子受伤，有时被人伤，有时自伤。到头来她暗吞苦果，心生咒骂：“我真是个他妈的破烂老婆！他妈的。我们总是孤独的。孤独地出生，孤独地死去。” 路易莎·托马斯曾在《纽约时报》撰文，赞扬斯特鲁特技巧非凡，其人物虽性格复杂，有时不免令人厌恨，却往往让读者在阅读过程中与女主人公合二为一。托马斯女士说，读完此书，她体会到一个简单的道理：“我们需要尽力理解他人，即便不能忍受他们...(展开全部)

From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. Thirteen linked tales from Strout (Abide with Me, etc.) present a heart-wrenching, penetrating portrait of ordinary coastal Mainers living lives of quiet grief intermingled with flashes of human connection. The opening Pharmacy focuses on terse, dry junior high-school teacher Olive Kitteridge and her gregarious pharmacist husband, Henry, b...(展开全部)

From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. Thirteen linked tales from Strout (Abide with Me, etc.) present a heart-wrenching, penetrating portrait of ordinary coastal Mainers living lives of quiet grief intermingled with flashes of human connection. The opening Pharmacy focuses on terse, dry junior high-school teacher Olive Kitteridge and her gregarious pharmacist husband, Henry, b...(展开全部)

此书由13个可独立成篇、亦相互关联的短小说构成，大部分以缅因州小镇中学数学女教师奥丽芙·基特里奇为主人公——有几篇她虽非中心人物，却也从旁出场。斯特鲁特不留情面，但暗怀同情地描写了她的半生。 书中的基特里奇太太现约60岁，一副暴脾气，谁也别想挡她的道。她动不动就发作，对外人如此，对家人同样——几乎将丈夫和儿子逼疯。她丈夫亨利是镇上的药剂师，性格温良。 在斯特鲁特女士笔下，基太太一辈子伤人，也一辈子受伤，有时被人伤，有时自伤。到头来她暗吞苦果，心生咒骂：“我真是个他妈的破烂老婆！他妈的。我们总是孤独的。孤独地出生，孤独地死去。” 路易莎·托马斯曾在《纽约时报》撰文，赞扬斯特鲁特技巧非凡，其人物虽性格复杂，有时不免令人厌恨，却往往让读者在阅读过程中与女主人公合二为一。托马斯女士说，读完此书，她体会到一个简单的道理：“我们需要尽力理解他人，即便不能忍受他们...(展开全部)

此书由13个可独立成篇、亦相互关联的短小说构成，大部分以缅因州小镇中学数学女教师奥丽芙·基特里奇为主人公——有几篇她虽非中心人物，却也从旁出场。斯特鲁特不留情面，但暗怀同情地描写了她的半生。 书中的基特里奇太太现约60岁，一副暴脾气，谁也别想挡她的道。她动不动就发作，对外人如此，对家人同样——几乎将丈夫和儿子逼疯。她丈夫亨利是镇上的药剂师，性格温良。 在斯特鲁特女士笔下，基太太一辈子伤人，也一辈子受伤，有时被人伤，有时自伤。到头来她暗吞苦果，心生咒骂：“我真是个他妈的破烂老婆！他妈的。我们总是孤独的。孤独地出生，孤独地死去。” 路易莎·托马斯曾在《纽约时报》撰文，赞扬斯特鲁特技巧非凡，其人物虽性格复杂，有时不免令人厌恨，却往往让读者在阅读过程中与女主人公合二为一。托马斯女士说，读完此书，她体会到一个简单的道理：“我们需要尽力理解他人，即便不能忍受他们...(展开全部)

#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 th...(展开全部)

Olive, Again follows the blunt, contradictory yet deeply loveable Olive Kitteridge as she grows older, navigating the second half of her life as she comes to terms with the changes - sometimes welcome, sometimes not - in her own existence and in those around her. Olive adjusts to her new life with her second husband, challenges her estranged son and his family to accept him, ex...(展开全部)

Olive, Again follows the blunt, contradictory yet deeply loveable Olive Kitteridge as she grows older, navigating the second half of her life as she comes to terms with the changes - sometimes welcome, sometimes not - in her own existence and in those around her. Olive adjusts to her new life with her second husband, challenges her estranged son and his family to accept him, ex...(展开全部)

#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 th...(展开全部)

Olive, Again follows the blunt, contradictory yet deeply loveable Olive Kitteridge as she grows older, navigating the second half of her life as she comes to terms with the changes - sometimes welcome, sometimes not - in her own existence and in those around her. Olive adjusts to her new life with her second husband, challenges her estranged son and his family to accept him, ex...(展开全部)