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Amy and Isabelle
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Stephanie Roberts
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction
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Summary
With compassion, 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 Fat Bev, the community's enormous (and enormously funny and compassionate) peacemaker and amateur medical consultant. Keeping Isabelle and Amy as the main focus of her sharp, sympathetic eye, Elizabeth Strout attends to them all. As she does so, she reveals not only her deep affection for her characters, both serious and comic, but her profound wisdom about the human condition in general. She makes us care about these extraordinary ordinary people and makes us hope that they will find a way out of their often self-imposed emotional exile.
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- Nancy Bowring
- 19-11-14
Compelling story about relationships
This is one of the best books I’ve read/listened to for a very long time. Elizabeth Strout has an innate understanding of human nature and how people tick. It is basically about relationships and how our perception about the way people think about us affects our ability to get on with them.
The two main relationships are between the daughter and mother, Amy and Isabelle. Their mutual lack of understanding about each other’s needs is tragic and destructive. It is only when Isabelle faces the truth about herself that she is able to appreciate her daughter’s feelings and recognise her own deep love for her.
The first class narrator breathes life into each intricately drawn character (and there are many varied personalities in the book) and makes every one utterly convincing and real.
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- bookylady
- 08-01-17
Love & relationships in a small town.Stunning read
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I am a recent convert to Elizabeth Strout and I have been enthusing with friends about two of her other novels in the past few months. Amy & Isabelle is another tour de force of spare, thoughtful, compassionate writing, full of wisdom, humour and insight into the lives of ordinary,everyday folk/families. The story arcs, on the surface, seem in the first few chapters to be simple and straightforward. But the quality of the prose, the imagery and the witty, true-to-life dialogue draws you in and grabs you by the throat and heart and you realise that the plot is far more complex than it first appears. I totally believed in the (mostly) female characters of this story but the male characters were well-drawn too, particularly the creepy, sexual predator Mr. Robertson.
The main protagonists are the teenage Amy, who is on the threshold of womanhood, and Isabelle her single, uptight mother. When Amy becomes embroiled (and subsequently exposed) in an inappropriate relationship with a teacher she and her mother become estranged. Their relationship seems irretrievable but when subsequent events force Isabelle to confess her own 'shameful' secrets, the pair are able to try to reconcile their differences and move on.
Alongside all of this are the intertwined lives of Isabelle's workmates and her boss Avery whom she secretly yearns for. This group of females contains some beautifully constructed characters (particularly the comic, caring, mother hen Fat Bev) and the plot deftly weaves their lives, relationships, faults, crises and disappointments together to a point where Strout demonstrates the absolute importance of friendship and selfless love.
It is a classic tale of small-town life where ordinary people can be living extraordinary lives right under the noses of those who think they know them best! If you like the kind of books written by Anne Tyler and Carol Shields, try this excellent novel.
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- DAVID
- 31-05-19
Exquisite. Beautiful
The everyday story of growing up in New England in the 70s - but beautifully observed, sensitive, true.
Touching and profound in its realism. Poetic.
Exquisitely read.
A VERY easy listen.....
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- Luke
- 09-09-19
Good, but not a page turner
I quite enjoyed this though I was rather glad when it ended. It was well written but I found the rather plodding pace uninspiring and slightly dull in places.
So saying, the story was interesting and inciteful but it just didn't grab me.
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- M Wadsley
- 17-12-17
Great listen!
Beautifully written. Real, honest and makes you question your own moral compass. My 2nd E. Strout book and just off to purchase my next!
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- Cita
- 17-01-17
Touching and thought provoking!
Totally loved every aspect of this wonderful story. it is beautifully read and the characters come to life.. Wonderful exploration of personal relationships, developing sexuality, hopes and disappointments.
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- Amazon Customer
- 04-05-22
Excellent Narration
Another good Elizabeth Strout novel about the lives & feelings of ordinary people in small town New England.
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- kathy
- 24-11-21
Brilliant novel.
Loved it so so much. Elizabeth Strout is such an amazing writer. Great understanding of people and so eloquently written
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- Anonymous User
- 16-11-20
Elizabeth Strout at her best
The detailed attention Strout pays to a short but eventful period in a mother & daughter’s and the people who surround them in the small town they live in mid-century America is exceptional - her pin point accuracy of emotions and actions is astonishing. Highly recommended!
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- Presto
- 18-09-20
Great listen
I find this author very thought provoking and this story is no exception. It left me feeling that all reasonable humans find life tough going.
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- Catherine
- 03-11-14
Honest, tough and absorbing
This was my first Elizabeth Strout, and I'm looking forward to the next. The writing is precise and lyrical. Precise, in that there isn't a wasted word. Lyrical in that although there are few specific descriptions of places and things, you can "see" the rooms and settings clearly through the characters' dialog. The story is simple and urgently familiar to anyone who ever lived a limited life in a small town. My mental pictures as I listened were very Hopper: this is small town life, red in tooth and claw. It's not an easy listen but a worthwhile one.
I'm picky about narrators, and this one is pretty good. Occasionally a bit actor-ish, but generally authentic and without the overlay of her own opinions that spoils so many otherwise good audiobooks.
Another reviewer called it offensive. Well, a couple of scenes are quite explicit, but that was really necessary to evoke an adolescent girl's ignorance in the context of her first sexual encounter. Really poignant, the way she mistakes rutting passion for romance, and without that nuance the rest of the story wouldn't play.
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- Patricia L.
- 21-05-17
A story that you will want to listen to in a single audio reading
So many have commented on the story, characters, and the writing, I would like to point out the magnificence of the narrator. She is wonderful, esp. in capturing the voice of Amy--both as the young woman struggling to live in the constricted world of her mother's psychological fears, emotional uncertainties, and economic worries, but also when the very young child breaks out in this teenage girl longing to know physical warmth and realize the possibility of love's intimacy.
The amazing quality to Stephanie Roberts' performance is that she does not get in the way of the story; that is, at least for a woman listening to her, it as as though you are hearing your own internal voice
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- RueRue
- 11-09-14
Real life
A dramatic, well paced narrative centered on a hot, oppressive summer in a New England mill town. Excellent narration. This is a character driven story, and I found it quite compelling. Especially loved the "supporting" characters of Fat Bev and Dottie.
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- Jonathan
- 22-09-21
Another unforgettable lesson in Compassion
Every book I listen to by Elizabeth Strout, reminds me of people I've know and forgotten about, some of whom I judged before I forgot about them. At some point during every book I think of myself in various forms. The insecure me, the child me, or the judged me. I cannot read Ms. Strout without feeling empathy and compassion for the characters who inhabited my life, and for myself. She has a gift.
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- Kirk A Mann
- 08-07-21
Brilliant Intricate Story
4th audible book I have completed of Elizabeth Strout's. Deep beautiful characters - heartwrenching and heartwarming mother daughter journey. A balance of life - dark and light. Excellent narration by Stephanie Roberts. Deep brilliant writing!
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- Amazon Customer
- 15-02-21
excellent story, the beginning of my love affair
Elizabeth Strout creates interesting and unforgettable characters. Somehow I had never read her first novel and I'm so glad I finally did! Well written and well performed I found my self re-reading chapters to dive in deeper to the mystery of this small town tale.
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- Rena Alisa
- 26-09-18
Mothers and Daughters
Subtle and true.
The emotions of raising a daughter, coming of age and the secret of fulfillment.
That is a lot to ask of one novel, but it is magnificently delivered in this book.
A masterpiece!
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- redhedsed
- 21-03-17
Wow. So many intimate life moments captures beautifully
This books stats slow but man, does it build. What an intricate pattern appears. Such a lovely portrait of how much friendship and kindness are needed in this world. A great read
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- Amanda
- 30-03-14
Elizabeth Strout is always a unique read.
Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
I would recommend this title to any current Elizabeth Strout fans. I feel one must either have a) an open mind, or b) an existing appreciation for Strout's heavy exposition.
What did you like best about this story?
I love the painful believability of the characters.
What three words best describe Stephanie Roberts’s performance?
Patient. Impassioned. Believable.
If you could rename Amy and Isabelle, what would you call it?
The Sins of the Mother
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- Molly-o
- 01-12-13
This book grows on you and stays!
Elizabeth Strout is a talented writer and brings people into my life whom I would probably never otherwise meet. These are simple, genuinely kind people who, like all of us, are trying to navigate life's difficulties - in this case, a mother and 17 year old daughter who don't really start communicating until they are faced with major obstacles. The characters are beautifully drawn and the changes they come into are authentically depicted. I loved it.
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