--- product_id: 111596505 title: "Olive, Again: A Novel Hardcover – October 15, 2019" brand: "elizabeth strout" price: "€ 9.47" currency: EUR in_stock: false reviews_count: 11 url: https://www.desertcart.gr/products/111596505-olive-again-a-novel-hardcover-october-15-2019 store_origin: GR region: Greece --- # Olive, Again: A Novel Hardcover – October 15, 2019 **Brand:** elizabeth strout **Price:** € 9.47 **Availability:** ❌ Out of Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Olive, Again: A Novel Hardcover – October 15, 2019 by elizabeth strout - **How much does it cost?** € 9.47 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Currently out of stock - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.gr](https://www.desertcart.gr/products/111596505-olive-again-a-novel-hardcover-october-15-2019) ## Best For - elizabeth strout enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted elizabeth strout brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Full description not available ## Images ![Olive, Again: A Novel Hardcover – October 15, 2019 - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51X+W8DLjBL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Took some time to recover the charm of the prior Olive book *by K***R on Reviewed in the United States on March 21, 2022* I read this book because, obviously, I had loved Olive in the prior book. Olive is a difficult, forthright and opionated woman who speaks her mind and forms uninformed opinions about everyone she meets. She is most definitely not loveable, and yet we had come to love her. Olive is barely in this book. And the final note of hope and peace that you find at the end of the first book is immediately withdrawn from this one. It only is found again at very nearly the end. Especially in the beginning of this novel there is a lot of profanity that the characters are saying--gratuious, unnecessary profanity. And Olive is not charming or endearing in any way. And virtually all of the characters that tell their stories have the saddest, most hopeless stories you can have. Sometimes at the very end of their recitation there is a small upbeat in positivity, but that is all you are given after having endured the prior hopeless anecdote. And I wsan't sure what the author was hoping I would take away from that. That life just plain sucks? You can try your best and are abused or neglected and there is no other option than that? Honestly, if this is all life can be or is to be expected then no wonder Olive is so mean. And the first half of the book most of the descriptions that Olive internally makes about anybody she meets usually regards the size of their ass or their stomach flopping onto the table. Real body shaming nonsense that is pretty atrocious. I was glad I did get to the end because Olive does conclude that she makes assumptions against people based on something as nonsensical as that fact they are from New York, for example. (and that is wrong in her mind, obviously). Finally, and I mean finally, Olive finds some peace and friends in an assisted living home and concludes (and I highlighted this) "I do not have a clue who I have been. Truthfully, I do not understand a thing."I think the author wanted to finish up the charming book about Olive with a story about the end of life of someone like Olive. And if you are game for that, then read this book. If I had read that in the reviews, I don't know if I would have read the book. Death and the end of a life is rarely really dealt with in any form in our country. And it is certainly a topic everyone has to face. This books main topic is that. And even more than that. This book deals with death from the point of view of a person who almost certainly lives at odds with the world and alienates most people she meets--even though her honesty breaks through defenses of people in odds comforting ways at times. It deals with Olive's loneliness and her relationship with her son which had been a disappointment much of her life. I was glad that relationship was healed somewhat by the end of the book. I think everybody ought to read this book so that our end of life is more connected in peace before we reach our ends. I don't know if this was meant to be a cautionary tale, but it has to be. Because virtually every periphery character is a cautionary tale of their own in this story. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Poignant *by D***R on Reviewed in the United States on October 1, 2022* With Olive, a whole range of topics are explored. The meaning of life,love, motherhood, aging,death and dying are touched upon with humor and sadness. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Excellent insight into human understanding of self and others. *by J***R on Reviewed in the United States on September 23, 2022* Makes one think deeper of ones relationships with others and how little we take time to truly know the other party. 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