Name: Amy and Isabelle
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Author: Strout, Elizabeth
ISBN: 9780375705199

Type

Physical Book

Author

Elizabeth Strout

Publisher

Vintage

Year

2000

Language

English

Pages

320

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.4 x 13.1 x 1.9 cm

Weight

0.24 kg.

ISBN

0375705198

ISBN13

9780375705199

Edition No.

Synopsis "Amy and Isabelle "

Before there was Olive Kitteridge, there was Amy and Isabelle... "A novel of shining integrity and humor, about the bravery and hard choices of what is called ordinary life."--Alice Munro 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.

Elizabeth Strout

(Author)

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Elizabeth Strout (Portland, 1956) is an American novelist, author of Amy and Isabelle (1998, winner of the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize), Stay with Me and The Burgess Boys, as well as the successful series featuring Olive Kitteridge —Olive Kitteridge, winner of the Pulitzer, Llibreter, Bancarella, and Mondello awards and which became an acclaimed TV series, and February Light— and Lucy Barton —My Name is Lucy Barton, Anything is Possible, Oh William (considered one of the best books of the year by The Times and finalist for the Booker Prize, with which Alfaguara began in 2022 the publication of Strout's work), and, now, Lucy by the Sea—. Additionally, she has been a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize. She currently lives between New York and Portland.

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