Simon later tells Angie that her mother, a prostitute, followed Simon and propositioned him. One winter evening she sees her ex-boyfriend Simon in the audience and she calls her married lover, Malcolm, to break off their relationship. Olive notices that a former classmate of Kevin's, Patty Howe, has fallen into the dock, and Kevin rescues her.Īngie O'Meara, who plays piano at the Warehouse Bar and Grill, is an alcoholic who can only perform in front of people when she is drunk. Kevin decides not to go through with his plan. While sitting in his car he is approached by Olive Kitteridge, his former math teacher, who enters his car and speaks to him frankly about his mother's suicide years before and her own father's suicide. Kevin Coulson returns to Crosby where he grew up, planning to go to his childhood home and die by suicide.

Denise maintains contact with Henry through a yearly birthday letter. Jerry McCarthy, the delivery boy, eventually proposes to Denise and the couple move to Texas. Henry daydreams of taking care of Denise after the death of her husband, though he still loves his cantankerous wife Olive. The first story centers on Henry Kitteridge, the pharmacist of the town of Crosby and husband of Olive, and his relationship with an employee, Denise Thibodeau. A sequel to the novel, titled Olive, Again, was published on Octoby Random House. The series won eight awards at the 2015 Primetime Emmys. HBO produced a four-part miniseries based on the novel featuring Frances McDormand in the title role, which aired on November 2 and 3, 2014. It won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award. It takes the form of 13 short stories that are interrelated but discontinuous in terms of narrative. The novel provides a portrait of the title character and a number of recurring characters in the coastal town of Crosby, Maine. Olive Kitteridge is a 2008 novel by American author Elizabeth Strout.

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