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Amy and Isabelle by Elizabeth Strout
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.
A Reader's Guide is included in this powerful first novel by the author who brought Olive Kitteridge to millions of readers.
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The House on Mango Street
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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American Psycho
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One Day
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Snow Falling on Cedars
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The Little Friend
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Push
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Geek Love
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Memoirs of a Geisha
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Bridge of Sighs: Oprah's Book Club
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Unaccustomed Earth
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The River
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Empire Falls (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
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Interior Chinatown
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Plainwater
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Autobiography of Red
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Einstein's Dreams
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Sweetbitter
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Dept. of Speculation
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Our Souls at Night
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The Flight Attendant
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Where I'm Calling From
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Swamplandia!
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The Guide
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The Queen's Gambit
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If Not, Winter
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The Sandcastle Girls
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Eventide
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The Book of Unknown Americans
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Brother, I'm Dying
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One More Thing
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Old School
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This Must Be the Place
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The Tie That Binds
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Glamorama
Elizabeth Strout is the author of four novels, including Olive Kitteridge, which won the Pulitzer Prize, and The Burgess Boys, which was published last year. She is a New Yorker.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780375705199 |
| ISBN 10 | 0375705198 |
| Title | Amy and Isabelle |
| Author | Elizabeth Strout |
| Series | Vintage Contemporaries |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 2000-02-01 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for Orange Prize 2000 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |