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 ReviewBefore 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. A Reader's Guide is included in this powerful first novel by the author who brought Olive Kitteridge to millions of readers.
Sobre o autor(a)
Strout, Elizabeth
A romancista e contista americana ELIZABETH STROUT nasceu em 1956 em Portland, Maine, e cresceu em Durham, New Hampshire. Filha de professores e formada em direito, publicou seu primeiro livro, Amy and Isabelle, em 1998. Finalista do PEN/Faulkner Award e do Orange Prize, seu romance Olive Kitteridge (prêmio Pulitzer de ficção em 2009) foi adaptado para a televisão com Frances McDormand no papel principal. Dela a Companhia das Letras publicou também Meu nome é Lucy Barton. Strout mora em Nova York e ensina humanidades e escrita criativa em universidades americanas. |
| ISBN | 9780375705199 |
| Autor(a) | Strout, Elizabeth |
| Editora | Vintage |
| Ano de edição | 2000 |
| Páginas | 320 |
| Acabamento | Brochura |