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Amy and Isabelle : A novel

by Elizabeth Strout
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Mother-daughter tension, love, and secrets.

Amy and Isabelle could be a good read for those who enjoy family dramas and complex relationships. This book depicts the complicated relationship between a mother and daughter who have trouble understanding each other but try to navigate their way through secrets, sexuality, and shame. Elizabeth Strout's writing shines in her ability to capture the intricacies of small-town life and the complexities of human emotions.

  • Orange Prize Nominee for Fiction Shortlist (2000)
  • PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Nominee (2000)
  • Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction (1999)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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Amy and Isabelle : A novel

by Elizabeth Strout
$11.62 Now $8.13 Save 30% more
ISBN: 9780375705199
Estimated First-hand Retail Price: $26.95
Authors: Elizabeth Strout
Publisher: Vintage
Date of Publication: 2000-02-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Literary Fiction, Contemporary
Goodreads rating: 3.9
(rated by 27514 readers)

Description

Pulitzer Prize winning author Elizabeth Strout’s bestselling and award winning debut, Amy and Isabelle—adapted for television by Oprah Winfrey— 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. That they eat, sleep, and work side by side in the gossip-ridden mill town of Shirley Falls—a location fans of Strout will recognize from her critically acclaimed novel, The Burgess Boys—only increases the tension. And just when it appears things can't get any worse, Amy's sexuality begins to unfold, causing a vast and icy rift between mother and daughter that will remain unbridgeable unless Isabelle examines her own secretive and shameful past.A Reader's Guide is included in the paperback edition of this powerful first novel by the author who brought Olive Kitteridge to millions of readers.
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*Books may be missing bundle media (e.g. CD, e-book code), if included.

 

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Mother-daughter tension, love, and secrets.

Amy and Isabelle could be a good read for those who enjoy family dramas and complex relationships. This book depicts the complicated relationship between a mother and daughter who have trouble understanding each other but try to navigate their way through secrets, sexuality, and shame. Elizabeth Strout's writing shines in her ability to capture the intricacies of small-town life and the complexities of human emotions.

  • Orange Prize Nominee for Fiction Shortlist (2000)
  • PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Nominee (2000)
  • Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction (1999)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.