Olive Kitteridge from Brilliance Audio on MP3-CD Lib Ed Price: $39.24
Customer Review: The mother of a friend read this book in a book club of hers and raved about how good the writing was and how much they all enjoyed it. After reading it myself, I completely agree. So very worthy of the awards received. A must read!
Customer Review: Wow...all I can say is this was the slowest, most predictably bad book I've struggled thru in a long time. I kept waiting for something to happen. Strout's writing style is actually ok but the non-existant plot and troubling characterizations make for a really boring work. I really wanted to like... more info
Customer Review: Elizabeth Strout's Abide With Me is an intimate treatment of contemporary American village life--the gossips, the sinners, the sinners who believe themselves to be saints, and the flawed preacher trying desperately to point them all toward the light. As a minister's wife, I burst into tears more... more info
Customer Review: Olive Kittredge is a fast paced collection of short stories that the author has brilliantly woven together by a very interesting character named Olive. Olive is a seventh-grade math teacher married to a pharmacist in small New England town. She is a complex person who is a little bit of all of us or... more info
Customer Review: In a way, Edith Wharton was at her best in her novellas -- her stories are lean, taut and emotionally deep. That's what "Summer" and "Ethan Frome" have in common, as they look at love, sex, marriage and the conventions of the 1800s. Put together, these novellas are utterly fascinating. "Ethan... more info
