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Olive Kitteridge.(Brief article)(Book review)

The New Yorker

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The whitecaps in the harbor, some familiar piano chords, the doughnut a man brings to his wife after visiting his lover--Strout animates the ordinary with an astonishing force. These linked stories introduce the inhabitants of Crosby, Maine, where the pull of domestic tragedy is stronger for rarely being spoken of. Angela doesn't mention the bruises she's noticed on her mother's arm at the nursing home; Marlene learns of her husband's infidelity only after his funeral; Kevin plans to shoot himself, like his mother before ...

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