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Amy and Isabelle
by Elizabeth Strout
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ISBN13: 9780375705199 |
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Synopses & Reviews
Publisher Comments:
In her stunning first novel, Amy and Isabelle, Elizabeth Strout evokes a teenager's alienation from her distant mother — and a parent's rage at the discovery of her daughter's sexual secrets. In most ways, Isabelle and Amy are like any mother and her 16-year-old daughter, a fierce mix of love and loathing exchanged in their every glance. And eating, sleeping, and working side by side in the gossip-ridden mill town of Shirley Falls doesn't help matters. But when Amy is discovered behind the steamed-up windows of a car with her math teacher, the vast and icy distance between mother and daughter becomes unbridgeable.
As news of the scandal reaches every ear, it is Isabelle who suffers from the harsh judgment of Shirley Falls, intensifying her shame about her own secret past. And as Amy seeks comfort elsewhere, she discovers the fragility of human happiness through other dramas, from the horror of a missing child to the trials of Fat Bev, the community peacemaker. Witty and often profound, Amy and Isabelle confirms Elizabeth Strout as a powerful new talent.
Review:
"One of those rare, invigorating books that take an apparently familiar world and peer into it with ruthless intimacy, revealing a strange and startling place." — The New York Times Book Review
Review:
"Strout's insights into the complex psychology bewteen [mother and daughter] result in a poignant tale about two coming of age." --Time
Review:
"Impressive....Strout writes with abundant warmth." --People
Review:
"Poignant...sensitively imagined...[Amy and Isabelle] recalls the elgegiac charm of Our Town." --The Christian Science Monitor
Review:
"Stunning....Every once in a while, a novel comes along that plunges deep into your psyche, leaving you breathless....This year that novel is Amy and Isabelle." --San Francisco Chronicle
Review:
"A novel of shining integrity and humor, about the bravery and hard choices of what is called ordinary life."
-Alice Munro
-Alice Munro
Review:
"Excellent....Strout's collective portrait...remains unflaggingly engaging....[W]hat a pleasure to gain entry into the world of this book." --The New Yorker
Review:
"Lovely, powerful...a kind if modern 'Rapunzel.'" --Newsweek
Review:
"Amy and Isabelle is an impressive debut....with an expansiveness and inventiveness that is the mark of a true storyteller." --The Philadelphia Inquirer
Synopsis:
In most ways, Isabelle and Amy are like any mother and her 16-year-old daughter, a fierce mix of love and loathing exchanged in their every glance. But when Amy is discovered behind the steamed-up windows of a car with her math teacher, the vast and icy distance between mother and daughter becomes apparently unbridgeable. In this stunning novel, Strout evokes a teenager's alienation from her distant mother and a parent's rage at the discovery of her daughter's sexual secrets.
About the Author
Elizabeth Strout lives in New York City.
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Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780375705199
- Author:
- Publisher:
- Vintage Books USA
- Author:
- Location:
- New York :
- Subject:
- General
- Subject:
- Fiction
- Subject:
- New england
- Subject:
- Mothers and daughters
- Subject:
- Movie-TV Tie-In
- Subject:
- High school teachers
- Subject:
- Teenage girls
- Subject:
- Single mothers
- Subject:
- Sexual ethics for teenagers
- Subject:
- Domestic fiction
- Subject:
- Illegitimate children
- Subject:
- Sexual harassment in education.
- Subject:
- Sexual consent.
- Subject:
- Movie-TV Tie-In - General
- Subject:
- Media Tie-In - General
- Edition Description:
- 1st Vintage Contemporaries ed.
- Series Volume:
- no. FPT00-01
- Publication Date:
- February 2000
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Language:
- English
- Pages:
- 320
- Dimensions:
- 8.02x5.21x.74 in. .56 lbs.
