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Amy and Isabelle

Name: Amy and Isabelle
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Author: Elizabeth Strout
ISBN: 9780804191920

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Published on Nov 12, 2013 | 11 Hours 28 Minutes

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Published on Nov 12, 2013 | 11 Hours 28 Minutes

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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 secrets.

“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 New York Times Book Review

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.

“Strout’s insights into the complex psychology bewteen [mother and daughter] result in a poignant tale about two coming of age.” —Time

“Impressive….Strout writes with abundant warmth.” —People

“Poignant…sensitively imagined…[Amy and Isabelle] recalls the elgegiac charm of Our Town.” —The Christian Science Monitor

“Stunning….Every once in a while, a novel comes along that plunges deep into your psyche, leaving you breathless….This year that novel is Amy and Isabelle.” —San Francisco Chronicle

“Excellent….Strout’s collective portrait…remains unflaggingly engaging….[W]hat a pleasure to gain entry into the world of this book.” —The New Yorker

“Lovely, powerful…a kind if modern ‘Rapunzel.'” —Newsweek

“Amy and Isabelle is an impressive debut….with an expansiveness and inventiveness that is the mark of a true storyteller.” —The Philadelphia Inquirer

Author

Elizabeth Strout

Elizabeth Strout is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Lucy by the Sea; Oh William!, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize; Olive, Again; Anything Is Possible, winner of the Story Prize; My Name Is Lucy Barton; The Burgess Boys; Olive Kitteridge, winner of the Pulitzer Prize; Abide with Me; and Amy and Isabelle, winner of the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize. She has also been a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize in London. She lives in Maine.

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