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Before there was Olive Kitteridge, there was Amy and Isabelle... “A novel of shining integrity and humour, about the bravery and hard choices of what is called ordinary life.” - Alice Munro "Stunning... Heartbreaking... This novelist is destined for great things." - San Francisco ChroniclePulitzer Prize-winning author Elizabeth Strout’s bestselling and award-winning debut, Amy and Isabelle 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."One of those rare, invigorating books that take an apparently familiar world and peer into it with ruthless intimacy, revealing a strange and startling place." - The Ne

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Author

Elizabeth Strout, Suzanne V. Mayoux, Anna Mauri Batlle

Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9781400077731

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Contemporary Fiction