Amy and Isabelle - Rilegato

Strout, Elizabeth

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0375501347 ISBN 13: 9780375501340

Casa editrice: Random House Inc, 1998

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. 35,000 first printing. Tour.

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Born in Portland, Maine, <b>Elizabeth Strout</b> 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.

Elizabeth Strout has been teaching literature and writing at Manhattan Community College for ten years and has also taught writing at the New School.

Dal risvolto di copertina interno

ion, 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.<br>           <br>This conflict is surrounded by other large and small dramas in the town of Shirley Falls--a teenage pregnancy, a UFO sighting, a missing child, and the trials of Fa

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Random House Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0375501347
• ISBN 13: 9780375501340
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 303
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile