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Elizabeth Strout has earned critical acclaim and popular praise for her perceptive, absorbing, gutsy and emotional storytelling.
Elizabeth Strout won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for Olive Kitteridge, a collection of 13 linked stories about a retired schoolteacher.
Strout also authored Abide with Me and Amy and Isabelle, which won numerous literary awards (see below). She has been a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, the Orange Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Her stories have been published in several magazines including THE NEW YORKER. She is on the faculty of the MFA program at Queens University in Charlotte, NC and lives in New York City.
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Olive Kitteridge 2008 A collection of short stories, all set in a small town in Maine, united by one common character: Olive Kitteridge, a 70-something retired junior high math teacher. She's not a sweet old lady, but as she blunders through life, she also does some good. Olive isn't always lovable, but Elizabeth Strout lets us see our imperfect selves in Olive. And then Strout goes one step further: she lets Olive (and other townsfolk well past middle age) grow and change. Keep with these stories. They build, and the whole is truly more than the sum of its parts.Also in CD book, Large Print, PlayAway, Cassette Book, eAudio, eBook, PBKalso a Book Discussion Set Amy and Isabelle 1998 Isabelle's daughter Amy has fallen in love with her high school math teacher who takes advantage of her infatuation. When the relationship is discovered, Isabelle is furious with her daughter but also a little jealous. As mother and daughter try to rebuild the trust and closeness they once shared, the secrets of many citizens of Shirley Falls are revealed. Also in Large Print Abide With Me 2006 After the tragic death of his young wife, Reverend Tyler Caskey, a New England minister, struggles to hold together his own life, his family, and his town, while dealing with his personal anger, grief, and loss of faith.Also in CD book, Large Print, Cassette Book, eBook+eAudio,
A collection of short stories, all set in a small town in Maine, united by one common character: Olive Kitteridge, a 70-something retired junior high math teacher. She's not a sweet old lady, but as she blunders through life, she also does some good. Olive isn't always lovable, but Elizabeth Strout lets us see our imperfect selves in Olive. And then Strout goes one step further: she lets Olive (and other townsfolk well past middle age) grow and change. Keep with these stories. They build, and the whole is truly more than the sum of its parts.Also in CD book, Large Print, PlayAway, Cassette Book, eAudio, eBook, PBKalso a Book Discussion Set
Amy and Isabelle 1998 Isabelle's daughter Amy has fallen in love with her high school math teacher who takes advantage of her infatuation. When the relationship is discovered, Isabelle is furious with her daughter but also a little jealous. As mother and daughter try to rebuild the trust and closeness they once shared, the secrets of many citizens of Shirley Falls are revealed. Also in Large Print
Isabelle's daughter Amy has fallen in love with her high school math teacher who takes advantage of her infatuation. When the relationship is discovered, Isabelle is furious with her daughter but also a little jealous. As mother and daughter try to rebuild the trust and closeness they once shared, the secrets of many citizens of Shirley Falls are revealed. Also in Large Print
After the tragic death of his young wife, Reverend Tyler Caskey, a New England minister, struggles to hold together his own life, his family, and his town, while dealing with his personal anger, grief, and loss of faith.Also in CD book, Large Print, Cassette Book, eBook+eAudio,
Biography from Gale Biography in Context Database ElizabethStrout.com Official website of Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times Bestseller, with contact form. Library Thing Founded in 2002 by author Dave Eggers and educator Nínive Calegari, 826 Valencia is dedicated to supporting students ages 6 to 18 with their writing skills, and to helping teachers get their students excited about the writing.
Biography from Gale Biography in Context Database
ElizabethStrout.com Official website of Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times Bestseller, with contact form.
Library Thing Founded in 2002 by author Dave Eggers and educator Nínive Calegari, 826 Valencia is dedicated to supporting students ages 6 to 18 with their writing skills, and to helping teachers get their students excited about the writing.
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