Amy and Isabelle - Hardcover

Strout, Elizabeth

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0375501347 ISBN 13: 9780375501340

Verlag: Random House USA Inc, 1998

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Book by Strout Elizabeth

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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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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.
          
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

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• Verlag: Random House USA Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0375501347
• ISBN 13: 9780375501340
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 304