Amy and Isabelle
Elizabeth Strout
ISBN 10: 0375501347 ISBN 13: 9780375501340
Published by Random House, 1999
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With compassion, humor, and striking insight, Amy and Isabelle explores the secrets of sexuality that jeopardize the love between a mother and her daughter. Amy Goodrow, a shy high school student in a small mill town, falls in love with her math teacher, and together they cross the line between understandable fantasy and disturbing reality. When discovered, this emotional and physical trespass brings disgrace to Amy's mother, Isabelle, and intensifies the shame she feels about her own past. In a fury, she lashes out at her daughter's beauty and then retreats into outraged silence. Amy withdraws, too, and mother and daughter eat, sleep, and even work side by side but remain at a vast, seemingly unbridgeable distance from each other.
This conflict is surrounded by other large and small dramas in the town of Shirley Falls--a teenage pregnancy, a UFO sighting, a missing child, and the trials of Fat Bev, the community's enormous (and enormously funny and compassionate) peacemaker and amateur medical consultant. Keeping Isabelle and Amy as the main focus of her sharp, sympathetic eye, Elizabeth Strout attends to them all. As she does so, she reveals not only her deep affection for her characters, both serious and comic, but her profound wisdom about the human condition in general. She makes us care about these extraordinary ordinary people and makes us hope that they will find a way out of their often self-imposed emotional exile.
About the Author: Born in Portland, Maine, Elizabeth Strout now lives in New York City with her husband and daughter. She has been teaching literature and writing at Manhattan Community College for ten years and has also taught writing at the New School. Her fiction has appeared in many magazines, including The New Yorker.
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Title: Amy and Isabelle
Publisher: Random House
Publication Date: 1999
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Signed: Signed by Author(s)
Edition: 1st Edition
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Amy and Isabelle
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition Signed. Full number line, Random House drops the one on first editions. This is Elizabeth Strouts first book. Her third book, OLIVE KITTERIDGE, won the Pulitzer Prize. The book and dust jacket are in fine condition. The sale of the book includes a statement from the previous owner. The story revolves around Amy, 16, who seduces her math teacher. Located in Maine, the actions affect the couple, her mother Isabelle, and the community surrounding them. Alice Munroe quote: A novel of shining integrity and humor, about the bravery and hard choices of what is call ordinary life. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 000288
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