Amy's Story

Anna Lawton

Description

After Elena Ferrante, another powerful Italian voice emerges to tell us a tale of immigration with two strong women characters at its center, set against the background of American history, from the late 60's to 2011.

This novel provides an interesting commentary on the highlights in history that influenced the development of American society and brought about the current outcome. It includes love, struggle, and social turmoil.

Amy's Story begins with Amy, full name America, moving from Italy to New York City to live near her American father. Her journey from immigrant to successful publisher is intertwined with Stella, her childhood friend, whose unfinished memoir she intends to publish.

They both experience love, friendship, obstacles, success, and more, as their journey runs parallel to the Vietnam War, student protests and the Kent State shooting, the birth of radicalism and feminism, presidential elections and assassinations, the Watergate scandal, up to the 9/11 attack and beyond.

In the end, Stella's memoir does not get published, because Amy transforms it into a very successful novel. This twist will have readers re-imagine the entire story and see it from a surprising new perspective.

"Amy's Story is simply spellbinding. This is a story at once about identity, love and social upheaval; a woman's journey from old world to new; from Italy to America. Mysterious, brave and captivating."
–Joe McGinniss Jr., author of Carousel Court and The Delivery Man

"From the collapsing towers of 9/11 to the lyrical groves of northern Italy, the author ingeniously morphs Amy's Story into a journey across America and back and forth across time. Along the way we meet a cohort of colorful characters, witness several romances, and there are wars and politics, too–all woven into a mesmerizing narrative that unspools like a good film. Anna Lawton is not only a scholar of the first rank, but a deft and artful novelist with a flair for the unexpected in her work."
–Louis Menashe, author of Moscow Believes in Tears: Russians and Their Movies

Sujets

• Fiction

Informations

• Publié par: eBookIt.com
• Date de parution: 10 octobre 2017
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780998643366
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

Extrait

Amy’s Story A Novel

After Elena Ferrante, another powerful Italian voice emerges to tell a tale of immigration with two strong women characters at its cen- ter. It includes love, struggle, and social turmoil.

Amy’s Storyunfolds on the background of American history, from the late 60’s up until 2011, providing an interesting commentary on the highlights in history that inuenced the development of Ameri- can society over the past 40 years and brought about the current outcome. —Editorial Review

Praise for Amy’s Story

“Amy’s Story is simply spellbinding. This is a story at once about identity, love and social upheaval; a woman’s journey from old world to new; from Italy to America. Mysterious, brave and captivating.” —Joe McGinniss Jr., author ofCarousel Court andThe Delivery Man

“From the collapsing towers of 9/11 to the lyrical groves of northern Italy, the author ingeniously morphs Amy’s Story into a journey across America and back and forth across time. Along the way we meet a cohort of colorful characters, witness several ro- mances, and there are wars and politics, too—all woven into a mes- merizing narrative that unspools like a good îlm. Anna Lawton is not only a scholar of the îrst rank, but a deft and artful novelist with a air for the unexpected in her work.” —Louis Menashe, author ofMoscow Believes in Tears: Russians and Their Movies

“Lawton’s characters connect to words with dynamic interac- tions and intellectual alacrity. This author’s voice manages both the interior lives of her characters and the connective tissue of their worlds. Anna Lawton’s mastery of story orchestrates the best out of ‘situation and plot,’ with a full range of motion using the entire emotional alphabet.” —Grace Cavalieri, Host/Producer, “The Poet and the Poem” from the Library of Congress

“Amy’s StoryAnna Lawton sets a tempestuous romance by against the turbulent half-century of global change that erupted in the 1960s and owed across the land like a modern Great Flood. The private romance and the public turmoil work together to create a story as much about love as it is about progress, about aspiration and success as about longing and loss.” —Ben East, BenEastBooks.com

Amy’s Story A Novel

by Anna Lawton

Washington, DC

This is a novel and, therefore, a work of îction. References to historical îgures, historical events, real people and real places are part of the îctional world created by the author. Other characters and places are products of the author’s imagination and any resemblance to actual people or places is purely coincidental.

Copyright © Anna Lawton 2016 New Academia Publishing, 2017

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmied in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system.

Printed in the United States of America

Library of Congress Control Number: 2016915448 ISBN 978-0-9974962-1-5 paperback (alk. paper) ISBN 978-0-9974962-0-8 hardcover (alk. paper) ISBN 978-0-9986433-6-6 ebook

THESPRING is an imprint of New Academia Publishing

New Academia Publishing 4401-A Connecticut Ave. NW #236, Washington DC 20008 [e-mail] - www.newacademia.com

For the home of the brave

Memory moves constantly. It’s not like going to the storage room and picking up a thing that has been siing there unchanged. We have already been working for years on that thing. ― Umberto Eco (La memoria è sempre in movimento. Non è qualcosa che ci permee di andare in magazzino e prendere una cosa come era là senza che nessuno l’abbia modiîcata. È già una cosa su cui noi abbiamo lavorato durante gli anni.)

Contents

PART ONE—Beginning from the End (2001) I II III

(1967-1985) PART TWO—Yesterday Stella’s StoryManuscript 1. Los Angeles 1967 2. LA 1967 3. LA 1968 4. Santa Barbara 1968 5. LA, Summer 1970 6. LA, Fall 1970 7. LA, Winter 1970 8. LA, Fall 1973 9. LA, Winter 1974 10. LA, Summer 1974 11. Fairville 1974 12. Fairville 1980 13. Fairville 1984-1985 14. Fairville 1985-1988

PART THREE—Today (2001-2011) IV V VI VII

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