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Amy and Isabelle, also stylized as Amy & Isabelle, is the 1998 debut novel by the American author Elizabeth Strout. The novel was first published in hardback on December 29, 1998 through Random House and is set in the fictional town of Shirley Falls, a location that Strout would revisit in her 2013 novel The Burgess Boys.
- Elizabeth Strout
- 1998
Jul 1, 1998 · Pulitzer Prize winning author Elizabeth Strout’s bestselling and award winning debut, Amy and Isabelle—adapted for television by Oprah Winfrey— evokes a teenager's alienation from her distant mother—and a parent's rage at the discovery of her daughter's sexual secrets.
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Questions for Discussion. Amy and Isabelle. Isabelle comes to Shirley Falls in order to start a new life. How does her desire to re-create herself affect the way she is perceived by other people? How does it influence the way she raises Amy? Why is Amy so attracted to Fat Bev?
Read an excerpt from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Elizabeth Strout's stunning first novel, Amy and Isabelle. Set in the fictional town of Shirley Falls, Maine, it evokes a teenager's alienation from her distant mother — and a parent's rage at the discovery of her daughter's sexual secrets.
Amy and Isabelle is Elizabeth Strout’s first novel. This novel is set in the fictitious town of Shirley Falls and follows Isabelle and her teenage daughter Amy over an intense, hot summer. Strout seamlessly weaves Amy and Isabelle’s separate experiences, feelings and secrets.
Elizabeth Strout’s first novel, family drama Amy and Isabelle (1998), was adapted into a TV movie of the same name, produced by Oprah Winfrey in 2001. The novel is set in the fictional town of Shirley Falls, Maine. A river divides the town, separating the well-off residents from the poorer ones.
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Jan 1, 1999 · A lyrical, closely observant first novel, charting the complex, resilient relationship of a mother and daughter. Isabel Goodrow had settled in the mill town of Shirley Falls when her daughter Amy was an infant, reluctantly admitting to those who asked that both her husband and her parents were dead.
