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Amy and Isabelle

(1998)
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Awards
2000 PEN/Faulkner Award (nominee)
2000 Women's Prize For Fiction (nominee)
1999 Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction

Isabelle Goodrow works in a dead-end job in a self-imposed exile with her daughter Amy, trying to cope with the shame she feels about her affair with Amy's father. When Amy, frustrated by her seemingly unemotional mother, begins her own affair, the relationship between the two deteriorates.


Genre: Literary Fiction

Praise for this book

"A novel of shining integrity and humour." - Alice Munro


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