Amy & Isabelle - Brossura

Strout, Elizabeth

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1849833044 ISBN 13: 9781849833042

Casa editrice: Simon & Schuster Ltd, 2011

Riassunto

From the Man Booker Prize longlisted author of My Name is Lucy Barton Isabelle Goodrow has been living in self-imposed exile with her daughter Amy for 15 years. Shamed by her past and her affair with Amy's father she has submerged herself in the routine of her dead-end job and her unrequited love for her boss. But when Amy, frustrated by her quiet and unemotional mother, embarks on an illicit affair with her maths teacher, the disgrace intensifies the shame Isabelle feels about her own past. Throughout one long, sweltering summer as the events of the small town ebb and flow around them Amy and Isabelle exist in silent conflict until a final act leads ultimately to the understanding they both crave.

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L'autore:

Elizabeth Strout's tenure as a lawyer (six months) was slightly longer than her career as a stand-up comedian (one night). She has also worked as a bartender, waitress and piano player at bars across the USA. She now teaches literature in New York, where she lives with her husband and daughter.

Dalla quarta di copertina:

Amy Goodrow wants a new mother. Isabelle Goodrow never expected to be one, but has struggled for the last sixteen years to do it properly. When Amy is discovered in the throes of an intense affair with her maths teacher, mother and daughter engage in a battle of wills that threatens to break down the brittle construct of their existence in Shirley Falls, and reveal to all the shame and hidden grief that dominates their lives.
'Beautifully measured ... a complex and moving account of growing up, which depicts the powerful emotions of adolescence - and, indeed, of later life - with humour and sympathy' The Times
'A novel of shining integrity and humour, about the bravery and hard choices of what is called ordinary life' Alice Munro

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• Editore: Simon & Schuster Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1849833044
• ISBN 13: 9781849833042
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Numero di pagine: 320