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About the Film A 2001 OPRAH WINFREY PRESENTS Movie on ABC.
About the
Book National Bestseller
In her stunning first novel, Amy and Isabelle, Elizabeth Strout 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. And eating,
sleeping, and working side by side in the gossip-ridden mill town of
Shirley Falls doesn't help matters. But when Amy is discovered behind
the steamed-up windows of a car with her math teacher, the vast and icy
distance between mother and daughter becomes unbridgeable.
As news of the scandal reaches every ear, it is Isabelle who suffers from the harsh judgment of
Shirley Falls, intensifying her shame about her own secret past. And as Amy seeks comfort
elsewhere, she discovers the fragility of human happiness through other dramas, from the horror
of a missing child to the trials of Fat Bev, the community peacemaker. Witty and often profound,
Amy and Isabelle confirms Elizabeth Strout as a powerful new talent.
"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
"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
"Amy and Isabelle is an impressive debut....with an expansiveness and
inventiveness that is the mark of a true storyteller." --The
Philadelphia Inquirer
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 The New Yorker and many other
magazines. Amy and Isabelle is her first novel.
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