Amy and Isabelle A Novel |
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Author:
| Strout, Elizabeth |
Series title: | Vintage Contemporaries Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-375-70519-9 |
Publication Date: | Feb 2000 |
Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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Imprint: | Vintage |
Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $17.00 |
Book Description:
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER * The debut novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Olive Kitteridge evokes a teenager's alienation from her distant mother, and a parent's rage at the discovery of her daughter's sexual secrets. "A novel of shining integrity and humor, about the bravery and hard choices of what is called ordinary life."--Alice Munro, Nobel Prize-winning author Before there was
Olive Kitteridge, there was
Amy and...
More Description NATIONAL BESTSELLER * The debut novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Olive Kitteridge evokes a teenager's alienation from her distant mother, and a parent's rage at the discovery of her daughter's sexual secrets.
"A novel of shining integrity and humor, about the bravery and hard choices of what is called ordinary life."--Alice Munro, Nobel Prize-winning author
Before there was Olive Kitteridge, there was Amy and Isabelle...
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 this powerful first novel by the author who brought Olive Kitteridge to millions of readers.