Amy and Isabelle

by Strout, Elizabeth
ISBN: 9780375705199
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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. That they eat, sleep, and work side by side in the gossip-ridden mill town of Shirley Falls 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.
  • Format: TradePaperback
  • Author: Strout, Elizabeth
  • ISBN: 9780375705199
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 8.03 x 0.73
  • Number Of Pages: 320
  • Publication Year: 2000

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  • A novel of small-town life whose characters are not as they seem...

    Joseph P. - 3 years 7 months ago

    Elizabeth Strout's knack for characterization is remarkable-her characters always seem like old acquaintances even at the beginning of her books. The trials of Amy and Isabelle and their neighbors in small-town Shirley Falls are all the more heartbreaking because they seem to be happening to old friends.

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