Prickly, sharp, proof to the changes, cruelly honest and sensitive, Olivia Киттеридж is embodiment of life-breath. New collection of stories about Olivia пулитцеровского laureate Elisabeth Страут (a bonus is got for "Olivia Киттеридж") is the real encyclopaedia of feelings, gladnesses and troubles of modern man. Olivia tries to understand not only itself, acts, feelings, but also all, that takes place round her, life of people, that meet to her on a way. It and girl-teenager, experiencing the loss of father and realizing the sex appeal, and young woman that gathered to bear in a height a holiday, and not young man, that did not speak with a wife whole thirty years and suddenly knew unbelievable about the daughter, and even own son that does not understand her. Olivia, with her unbelievable sense of humour, makes laugh, frightens, touches, inspires. In modern world literature not so much heroes so bright and so considerable.