Amy Bloom, Author . Random $23.95 (160p) ISBN 978-0-679-45652-0
Taking in an amazing range and diversity of the human experience of gender and sexuality, novelist Bloom (Love Invents Us) devotes an essay each to three phenomena: female to male transsexualism, heterosexual cross-dressing and the intersexed, or...
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Amy Bloom, Author . Random $23.95 (240p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6356-7
Life is no party for Lillian Leyb, the 22-year-old Jewish immigrant protagonist of Bloom’s outstanding fifth novel: her husband and parents were killed in a Russian pogrom, and the same violent episode separated her from her three-year-old...
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Amy Bloom, Author . Random $25 (201p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6357-4
Bloom's latest collection (after novel Away
) looks at love in many forms through a keenly perceptive lens. Two sets of stories that read much like novellas form the book's soul; the first of which revolves around two couples—William
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Amy Bloom, Author HarperCollins Publishers $20 (177p) ISBN 978-0-06-018236-6
Bloom's remarkably consistent first collection of stories includes her award-winning ``Silver Water,'' a sad remembrance of a mentally ill sister and the family that loves yet cannot help her. The story includes elements common to Bloom's work:...
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Amy Bloom, Author Random House (NY) $21 (224p) ISBN 978-0-679-44109-0
The first two thirds of this first novel exhibit many of the excellent qualities seen in Bloom's highly praised short-story collection, Come to Me. Again, Bloom's prose combines lyrical imagery with a comfortable vernacular; her protagonist's vision
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Amy Bloom, Author Random House (NY) $22.95 (176p) ISBN 978-0-375-50268-2
Some of the power of her fiction (Love Invents Us, etc.) comes from Bloom's mastery of the writing craft; more arises from the empathy for human frailty exhibited by this author, who also works as a psychotherapist. Here, eight stories shed insight...
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Amy Bloom. Random, $26 (256p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6724-4
Two teenaged half-sisters make their way through WWII-era America in Bloom’s imaginative romp. After being left on her father’s Ohio doorstep by her absconding mother, 11-year-old Eva meets Iris, the older half-sister she never knew she had. They...
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Amy Bloom, read by Alicyn Packard. Random House Audio, , unabridged, six CDs, 7.5 hrs., $35 ISBN 978-0-8041-9134-0
In Bloom’s imaginative romp set in 1939, 11-year-old Eva meets Iris, the older half-sister she never knew she had, after being abandoned by her mother and left on her father’s doorstep in Ohio. Colorful events ensue: Iris runs away to Hollywood with
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Amy Bloom, Author, Barbara Rosenblat, Read by , read by Barbara Rosenblat. HighBridge Audio $34.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-59887-521-8
Rosenblat, who has narrated hundreds of books over the past 15 years, has a deep, clear, engaging voice and a mastery of cadence and inflection that projects wit and nuanced meaning. Rosenblat is renowned for her proficiency with accents—an...
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Amy Bloom. Random House, $27 (240p) ISBN 978-0-8129-9566-4
Bloom, finalist for the National Book Award (for Come to Me), brings to life Eleanor Roosevelt through the eyes of her lover, Lorena “Hick” Hickok, in this fiery historical novel. After eight years apart, Hick visits Eleanor following the death of F.
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Amy Bloom, illus. by Jameela Wahlgren. Norton Young Readers, $18.95 (40p) ISBN 978-1-324-03035-5
Nicki’s “funnest” and “coolest” aunt Carmela is marrying “nice, and funny, and very, very useful” Big Dave, shown in softly textured art by Walhgren as helping the brown-skinned young protagonist liberate cookies from a high-up jar. Nicki eagerly...
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Amy Bloom. Random House, $26 (240p) ISBN 978-0-593-24394-7
Novelist Bloom (White Houses) looks back on the beauty and turmoil of accompanying her husband through the final days of his life in this deeply moving memoir. When her husband, Brian, was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s in 2019, he chose to...
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