Elizabeth Strout
Paperback | Pages: 304 pages Rating: 3.82 | 17892 Users | 1950 Reviews
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| Title | : | Amy and Isabelle |
| Author | : | Elizabeth Strout |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 304 pages |
| Published | : | February 1st 2000 by Vintage (first published July 1st 1998) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Contemporary. Literary Fiction. Young Adult. Coming Of Age |
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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.
Present Books Toward Amy and Isabelle
| Original Title: | Amy and Isabelle |
| ISBN: | 0375705198 (ISBN13: 9780375705199) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | 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) |
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Ratings: 3.82 From 17892 Users | 1950 ReviewsColumn Of Books Amy and Isabelle
***NO SPOILERS***A ruminative story about loneliness, missed opportunities, envy, yearning, and hope set in a small New England town, Amy and Isabelle focuses on the complex relationship between an unassuming mother and her reticent teenage daughter. Amy is the obedient, respectful daughter until her 40-something substitute math teacher begins molesting her regularly. When Isabelle finds out, mother and daughter find their relationship suddenly strained and tense. Seemingly for the first time,This book was incredibly well written; even the secondary characters were crafted with exquisite care. Having put it down last evening, I cant stop thinking about this book. Unfortunately, I am at a loss to summarize it. If I were to say that it is the story of Isabelle, a single mother, and her teenaged daughter, Amy, weathering a particularly difficult period in the daughters adolescence, I would hardly scratch the surface of this novel. If I described it as a story of the deep well of shame,
I find it somewhat obscene that this was a debut.
Reading Road Trip 2020First stop: MaineLast summer, as I realized yet again that a road trip across America would not take place (due in part to First Daughter's chronic car sickness and the same daughter's inability to spend 5 minutes in a contained space with Second Daughter), I went into a funk. It has been far too long since I've had a good road trip, and I am determined to see all 50 states of this still-beautiful nation before I die. But, despite my itch, my reality has informed me that
This was an excellent and extremely thought-provoking book about the difficult topic of pedophilia, difficult here because the man's actions as well as Amy's (who is sixteen, a child in an adult's body and eager to break out of a stale and suffocating mother-daughter relationship) manage to cleverly blur the overall picture regarding what is right and wrong in their involvement with each other. I don't want to spoil the story by saying too much but I thought it was a powerful portrayal about why
Reading Road Trip 2020First stop: MaineLast summer, as I realized yet again that a road trip across America would not take place (due in part to First Daughter's chronic car sickness and the same daughter's inability to spend 5 minutes in a contained space with Second Daughter), I went into a funk. It has been far too long since I've had a good road trip, and I am determined to see all 50 states of this still-beautiful nation before I die. But, despite my itch, my reality has informed me that
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