About this title: Isabelle Goodrow works in a dead-end job in a self-imposed exile with her daughter Amy, trying to cope with the shame she feels about her affair with Amy's father. When Amy, frustrated by her seemingly unemotional mother, begins her own affair, the relationship between the two deteriorates.
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Vintage Books USA
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780375705199ISBN:0375705198
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Clean pages, no marks or tears, mild reading wear with pages slightly turned up, tanning on cover & pages, sticker on front cover, corners/edges bumped lightly frayed, tight binding, solid. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 320 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: Good. Spine is smooth. Covers show wear at the edges and corners. Good reading copy. Binding is Trade Paperback. Pages tanning. Used books may have price stickers. Most orders ship on the next business day. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House Inc, Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780375501340ISBN:0375501347
Description: Very Good in Fine jacket. Ex-Library. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Mylar covered non price-clipped DJ. Usual library markings otherwise fine condition. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780375501340ISBN:0375501347
Description: Very good in good dust jacket. HardCover w/DJ. DJ in good condition, cover/binding and pages in very good condition. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 304 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Vintage Books USA
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780375705199ISBN:0375705198
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. No Writing. No Highlighting. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 320 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Vintage Books USA
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780375705199ISBN:0375705198
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 320 p. Audience: General/trade. Blank sticker inside cover read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Vintage Books USA
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780375705199ISBN:0375705198
Description: Fine. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 320 p. Audience: General/trade. slight cover wear and black scribble on inside front free end paper read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Vintage Books USA
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780375705199ISBN:0375705198
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. slight wear to corners and edges of cover; otherwise fine. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 320 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
"I finally just put this book down when I was near the last quarter of it. It was tiresome, and going nowhere. It beats the relationship between mother and daughter to death, and just wouldn't let it go. I felt no affinity to either woman. The book was a tiresome, nonstop bore."
"I picked up this book because i'm on the waitlist for Olive Kitteridge and was wondering why i'd never heard of this author before. i'm so glad i did, as i was quite impressed by her Strout's first novel. reading her evocative descriptions of New England weather, and how the seasons played into her tale, really reminded me of the drama of New England seasons that i grew up with. and while the the student-teacher plot would appear, on face, to be the more titillating of the many major and minor plots in the story, i think it was overshadowed by a great mother-daughter tale of two people who can't communicate, who hide inside themselves and thus hide from one another. i would say that i was a bit irked that the few men who do appear in the story are fleeting or cast as perpetrators or slightly one-dimensional, more or less, and for that i was a bit sorry because while i understand that women, many women, are the main feature of this book (and rightfully so) i didn't think it necessarily meant that the male characters needed to be so bad or marginal."
"Elizabeth Strout has become one of my favorite writers. Her last book, Olive Kitteridge won the Nobel Prize for fiction. Isabelle & Amy takes an honest look at a mother daughter relationship of a "single mom." Strout expresses herself beautifully and has a good sense of humor. THis book will make you laugh and make you cry. I always find that at least one of her characters is someone I know.And others I want to know."
"I was wowed by Strout's writing in Olive Kitteridge, so decided to read other books she has written. I was not disappointed with Amy and Isabelle, a novel about the strained relationship between Isabelle, a single mother, and her teen-aged daughter Amy. A/I is a coming of age story of young Amy--but also of her mother--as both slowly and painfully find their freedom, independence, and the confidence to move ahead.
The story is not merely a struggle between mother and daughter; it's an intricate dance on both sides between yearnings, love ventured, lost opportunities, things said and unsaid. Strout's insights into her characters, including the supporting characters, and her ability to portray the nuances of their thoughts and behavior are her strengths. Glorious writing, growth, and redemption in the end...beautiful."
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