Talent…Strout uses remarkable restraint to deliver credible, and indeed 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.

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.

Keeping Isabelle and Amy as the main focus of her sharp, sympathetic eye, Elizabeth Strout attends to them all. 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. 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. In a fury, she lashes out at her daughter's beauty and then retreats into outraged silence. When discovered, this emotional and physical trespass brings disgrace to Amy's mother, Isabelle, and intensifies the shame she feels about her own past. 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. Other first edition points for books by Elizabeth Strout include: Olive Kitteridge.With compassion, humor, and striking insight, Amy and Isabelle explores the secrets of sexuality that jeopardize the love between a mother and her daughter. Picture of the first edition title page for Amy and Isabelle. Picture of the back dust jacket flap for the first edition of Amy and Isabelle. Picture of the first edition Random House boards for Amy and Isabelle. Picture of the back dust jacket for the first edition of Amy and Isabelle. Picture of dust jacket where original $22.95 price is found for Amy and Isabelle. Picture of the first edition copyright page for Amy and Isabelle. Picture of the 1998 first edition dust jacket for Amy and Isabelle. According to the Advance Reader's Edition, there were 35,000 first printings. Back of dust jacket has a single review by Alice Munro.

Board are white with gold lettering on a beige spine. The first edition can be identified by the following criteria: First Edition is stated below Random House number line '24689753'. It was 304 pages long, and the original retail price was $22.95. Pages: 304 The first edition of this nice read was published by Random House in 1998. First Edition Points and Criteria for Amy and Isabelle

Amy and isabelle by elizabeth strout