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- 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.
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Synopsis. When she is 16 years old, Amy goes to work at her mother's office, working in the office part of a mill in Shirley Falls. The two had previously had a close relationship, but their current relationship is strained and Amy is disdainful of her mother, who she sees as an awkward outsider.
- Elizabeth Strout
- 303 pages
- 1998
- 1998
Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998. Plot Summary. Elizabeth Strout’s first novel, family drama Amy and Isabelle (1998), was adapted into a TV movie of the same name, produced by Oprah Winfrey in 2001. The novel is set in the fictional town of Shirley Falls, Maine.
Summaries. In 1971, in the small town of Shirley Falls, in Maine, the odd and lonely secretary Isabelle Goodrow raises her teenager daughter Amy alone. She has only two friends in her job among her gossiper colleagues. When her overprotected daughter is seduced by her mathematic teacher Peter Robertson, the world of Isabelle falls apart.
Premise. Isabelle and Amy Goodrow are a mother and daughter that are currently living in the small mill town of Shirley Falls. The two are frequently at odds, something that is partially because Isabelle keeps everyone at a distance, which strains her relationship with her daughter.
- Ernest Troost
Brief Synopsis. The setting of "Amy and Isabelle" is the fictional town of Shirley Falls, Massachusetts, where Isabelle Goodrow works as a single mother raising her daughter, Amy. The narrative takes place during a sweltering summer, a time when the relationship between the two becomes strained due to a series of events.
Amy and Isabelle. by Elizabeth Strout. 1. Isabelle comes to Shirley Falls in order to start a new life. How does her desire to re-create herself affect the way she is perceived by other people? How does it influence the way she raises Amy? 2. Why is Amy so attracted to Fat Bev?
Mar 4, 2001 · With Elisabeth Shue, Hanna Hall, Martin Donovan, Conchata Ferrell. In 1971, in the small town of Shirley Falls, in Maine, the odd and lonely secretary Isabelle Goodrow raises her teenager daughter Amy alone. She has only two friends in her job among her gossiper colleagues.
