![]() ![]() Robertson driving Amy home and eventually kissing her. After maneuvering her way into detention with him the two begin to spend time with one another after school, eventually progressing to Mr. Amy becomes attracted to him after he singles her out for her beautiful gold curly hair and tells her that she looks like a poet. The two had previously had a close relationship, but their current relationship is strained and Amy is disdainful of her mother who she sees her as an awkward outsider.Ī year previously Amy's math teacher was replaced by a substitute, Mr. 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 novel was adapted into a 2001 television movie of the same name as part of the "Oprah Winfrey Presents" line of films. The novel follows the close relationship between Isabelle and her teenage daughter Amy, and how their relationship becomes strained after Amy is groomed by her much older math teacher. ![]() ![]() Strout would also revisit the character of Isabelle in her 2019 short story cycle Olive, Again. The novel was first published in hardback on Decemthrough Random House and is set in the fictional town of Shirley Falls, a location that Strout would revisit in her 2013 novel The Burgess Boys. Amy and Isabelle, also stylized as Amy & Isabelle, is the 1998 debut novel by the American author Elizabeth Strout. ![]()
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