Amy and Isabelle

Strout, Elizabeth

ISBN 10: 0375404961 ISBN 13: 9780375404962

Casa editrice: Random House, 1999

Riassunto

When Amy Goodrow, a shy high school student, falls in love with her math teacher, the love affair threatens the intimate relationship between Amy and her mother, Isabelle, whose feelings are influenced by the shame of her own past. A first novel. Simultaneous.

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Informazioni sull?autore

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 many magazines, including The New Yorker.

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Lili Taylor has starred in such films as Ship of Fools, Ransom, Girlstown, I Shot Andy Warhol, Short Cuts, Dogfight, and Say Anything.  She appeared on television in HBO's Subway Stories and on stage in Three Sisters and Avenue Boys.

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With compassion, humor, and striking insight, Amy and Isabelle explores the secrets of sexuality that jeopardize the love between a mother and her daughter.

Amy Goodrow, a shy high school student in a small mill town, falls in love with her math teacher, and together they cross the line between understandable fantasy and disturbing reality. When discovered, this emotional and physical trespass brings disgrace to Amy's mother, Isabelle, and intensifies the shame she feels about her own past. In a fury, she lashes out at her daughter's beauty and then retreats into outraged silence. Amy withdraws, too, and mother and daughter eat, sleep, and even work side by side but remain at a vast, seemingly unbridgeable distance from each other.

This conflict is surrounded by other large and small dramas in the town of Shirley Falls - a teenage pregnancy, a UFO

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Random House
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0375404961
• ISBN 13: 9780375404962
• Rilegatura: Audio Cassetta
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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