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Since the publication of Amy and Isabelle, Elizabeth Strout’s bestselling debut novel, seven years have passed. Now that her second novel, Abide with Me, is finally seeing the light of day, her fans are learning that good things are always worth waiting for.
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Fact File
| Name:
Elizabeth Strout
Current Home:
Brooklyn, New York
Date of Birth:
January 6, 1956
Place of Birth:
Portland, Maine
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B.A., Bates College, 1977; J.D., Syracuse College of Law, 1982
Awards:
The Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and The Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize for Amy and Isabelle, 1998
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Strout's Sophomore Effort
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| | Abide with Me
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Elizabeth Strout
Bestselling author Strout welcomes readers back to the archetypal, lovely landscape of northern New England, where the events of her first novel unfolded. In the late 1950s, in the small town of West Annett, Maine, a minister struggles to regain his calling, his family, and his happiness in the wake of profound loss. All is considered -- life, love, God, and community -- within these pages, and all is made new by this writer's boundless compassion and graceful prose.
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Take This Job...
| "My first job was when I was about 12, cleaning houses in the afternoons for different elderly women in town. I hated it," Strout recalls in our interview. "I would be so bored scrubbing at some kitchen tile, that my mind would finally float all over the place, to the beach, to a friend's house…all this happened in my mind as I scrubbed those tiles, so it was certainly good for my imagination. But I did hate it.”
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An Acclaimed Debut
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| | Amy and Isabelle
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Elizabeth Strout
In Strout's well-received first novel, 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 this is uncovered, Amy's mother, Isabelle, is disgraced. Fellow writer Alice Munro was an early fan, calling the work "a novel of shining integrity and humor."
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Virginia Woolf
We asked Strout to tell us about some of her favorite books, and she named Virginia Woolf's classic. "Her ability to display the multiplicity of character, the complexities of every person's emotional and psychological makeup at any given moment, was immediately breathtaking to me the first time I read it, and I have read it many times since, always finding something new," she reflects. Read on to learn about more of Strout's favorites, including:
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