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Amy and Isabelle: A Novel Audiobook
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The debut novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Olive Kitteridge evokes a teenager's alienation from her distant mother, and a parent's rage at the discovery of her daughter's secrets.
“One of those rare, invigorating books that take an apparently familiar world and peer into it with ruthless intimacy, revealing a strange and startling place.”—The New York Times Book Review
Before there was Olive Kitteridge, there was Amy and Isabelle…
In most ways, Isabelle and Amy are like any mother and her 16-year-old daughter, a fierce mix of love and loathing exchanged in their every glance. That they eat, sleep, and work side by side in the gossip-ridden mill town of Shirley Falls—a location fans of Strout will recognize from her critically acclaimed novel, The Burgess Boys—only increases the tension. And just when it appears things can't get any worse, Amy's sexuality begins to unfold, causing a vast and icy rift between mother and daughter that will remain unbridgeable unless Isabelle examines her own secretive and shameful past.
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“A genuine literarytalent…Strout uses remarkable restraint to deliver credible, and indeedlikeable, characters whose emotions churn dangerously close to the surface…Thewriting—sensitive, direct, and polished—is nearly flawless.”
— Rocky Mountain News
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“A novel of shining integrity and humor, about the bravery and hard choices of what is called ordinary life.”
— Alice Munro, winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize for Literature -
“One of those rare, invigorating books that take an apparently familiar world and peer into it with ruthless intimacy, revealing a strange and startling place.”
— New York Times Book Review -
“Stunning…Every once in a while, a novel comes along that plunges deep into your psyche, leaving you breathless…This year that novel is Amy and Isabelle.”
— San Francisco Chronicle -
“Strout’s insights into the complex psychology between [mother and daughter] result in a poignant tale about two coming of age.”
— Time -
“Amy and Isabelle is an impressive debut…with an expansiveness and inventiveness that is the mark of a true storyteller.”
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“Elizabeth Strout’s auspicious first novel…is tender and vigorous, full of surprising turns and quiet unfoldings, and it has a realism that is at once lovely and unsparing in its power.”
— Denver Post -
“Seldom has a writer captured the complexities of the love, pain, and forgiveness between mother and daughter as well as this promising young novelist.”
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“Strout has an uncanny ability to portray the poignant power struggle between teenage girls and their mothers…A finely crafted novel.”
— Hartford Chronicle -
“Lovely, powerful…A kind if modern ‘Rapunzel.’”
— Newsweek -
“Poignant...sensitively imagined…[Amy and Isabelle] recalls the elegiac charm of Our Town.”
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“Impressive…Strout writes with abundant warmth.”
— People -
“Excellent…Strout’s collective portrait…remains unflaggingly engaging…[W]hat a pleasure to gain entry into the world of this book.”
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“A lyrical, closely observant first novel…Strout demonstrates exceptional poise, and an uncommon ability to render complex emotions with clarity and a sympathetic intelligence.”
— Kirkus Reviews -
A novel of shining integrity and humor, about the bravery and hard choices of what is called ordinary life.
— Alice Munro -
Strout's insights into the complex psychology bewteen [mother and daughter] result in a poignant tale about two coming of age.
— Time -
Impressive....Strout writes with abundant warmth.
— People -
Poignant...sensitively imagined...[Amy and Isabelle] recalls the elgegiac charm of Our Town.
— The Christian Science Monitor -
Stunning....Every once in a while, a novel comes along that plunges deep into your psyche, leaving you breathless....This year that novel is Amy and Isabelle.
— San Francisco Chronicle -
Excellent....Strout's collective portrait...remains unflaggingly engaging....[W]hat a pleasure to gain entry into the world of this book.
— The New Yorker -
Lovely, powerful...a kind if modern 'Rapunzel.'
— Newsweek -
Amy and Isabelle is an impressive debut....with an expansiveness and inventiveness that is the mark of a true storyteller.
— The Philadelphia Inquirer
Awards
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A 2000 PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist
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Winner of the 1999 Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Prize for First Fiction
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A New York Times bestseller
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Shortlisted for the 2000 Orange Prize for Fiction
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Among shortlisted titles for Orange Prize, 2000
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Among shortlisted titles for Orange Prize, 2000
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About Elizabeth Strout
Elizabeth Strout is the New York Times bestselling author of numerous award–winning novels, including Olive Kitteridge, winner of the Pulitzer Prize. She has also won the Story Prize, the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award, and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize. She has been a finalist for the Booker Prize, PEN/Faulkner Award, and the Orange Prize in London.
About Stephanie Roberts
Stephanie Roberts is a native of Washington State. She studied acting at Cornish College of the Arts and has been performing, writing, directing, and teaching theater in Seattle and throughout the country for over a decade.