books by Amy Bloom

books by Amy Bloom

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Amy Bloom

Here Lies My Heart: Essays on Why We Marry, Why We Don't, and What We Find There (A Beacon Anthology)

Beacon Press

Beacon Press, 1999

Intimate, moving, thought-provoking
The stories in this book are lovely. They are sad, moving, deeply thought-out vignettes of various aspects of marriage, married life and/or relationships. The stories probably won't change your life but the reader is afforded an intimate glimpse into the private, ...

Away
Bloom Amy

Random House, 2007

Panoramic in scope, Away is the epic and intimate story of young Lillian Leyb, a dangerous innocent, an accidental heroine. When her family is destroyed in a Russian pogrom, Lillian comes to America alone, determined to make her way in a new land. When word comes that her daughter, Sophie, might still be alive, Lillian embarks on an odyssey that ...

Normal: Transsexual CEOs, Crossdressing Cops, and Hermaphrodites with Attitude

Amy Bloom

Vintage, 2003

Keen Insight, Delightful Style, and Fascinating
After a popular novel and two stunning collections of short stories, psychotherapist and fiction writer Amy Bloom turns an eye toward gender, and her new non-fiction book is a knockout. Made up of three individual essays and an Afterword called "On Nature," Bloom ...

Come to Me: Stories

Amy Bloom

Harper Perennial, 1994

Wonderful collection, Bloom has an amazing voice!
I found this collection by accident and didn't know what to expect. Short stories can be so good, or so bad. These stories are very good, consistently good. These are stories of people searching for something missing in their lives, well told stories with heart, soul ...

Away: A Novel

Amy Bloom

Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2008

READ THIS BOOK!
I LOVED this book. I picked it up at the airport before a long flight because...wait for it...I liked the cover. I was transported. It is unlike any book I have ever read, and I've read a few. It was spare and neat, and yet at the same time, beautifully and ...

Virtual Voyages: Cinema and Travel
Alexandra Schneider

Duke University Press, 2006

Virtual Voyages illuminates the pivotal role of travelogues within the history of cinema. The travelogue dominated the early cinema period from 1895 to 1905, was central to the consolidation of documentary in the 1910s and 1920s, proliferated in the postwar era of 16mm distribution, and today continues to flourish in IMAX theaters and a host of ...

Love Invents Us

Amy Bloom

Vintage, 1998

A beautiful, complex book
Love Invents Us is about a girl who was emotionally abandoned by her parents but who does not emotionally abandon others. Like many who are unloved by their parents, Elizabeth Taube reaches out to others; sometimes sexually, sometimes in a caregiver role, and sometimes ...

The Wings of the Dove (Modern Library Classics)

Henry James

Modern Library, 2003

Dazzling
I've read this novel half a dozen times over the years and my admiration for it grows more and more. James is as deeply experimental in his own highly iddiosyncratic manner as Joyce and Virginia Woolf were, taking us into the human psyche in new ways, echoing patterns ...

A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You : Stories

Amy Bloom

Vintage, 2001

a handful of gems
Being a psychotherapist, Ms. Bloom focuses on stories of people with...certain ailments. But not to worry, these are not 'disease of the week' soap operas--her stories are witty, sometimes outrageously so, often told by characters with their own reasons for bitterness ...

Persuasion (Modern Library Classics)

Jane Austen

Modern Library, 2001

Persuasive tale of a second chance at love
I thoroughly enjoyed this novel because of Jane Austen's lyrical prose, her timeless subjects of family relationships, love (and/or the search for it), her heartwarmingly drawn characters that I think any reader anywhere and at any time can relate to easily, and her ...

The Wings of the Dove (Modern Library MM)
Henry James

Modern Library, 2004

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Of the three late masterpieces that crown the extraordinary literary achievement of Henry James, The Wings of the Dove (1902) is at once the most personal and the most elemental. James drew on the memory of a beloved cousin who died young to create one of the three central characters, Milly Theale, an heiress ...

The Social Medicine Reader

Duke University Press, 1997

Anthology featuring writings that discuss how medicine and medical practice are influenced by social, cultural, political, and economic forces. Includes fiction, medical reports, scholarly essays, poetry, case studies, and personal narratives by patients and doctors. For medical students and practitioners. Softcover.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Bloom's Biocritiques)

Amy Sickels, Grace Kim

Chelsea House Publications, 2005

An informed and informative biography of Gabriel Garcia Marques
In "Gabriel Garcia Marquez", Harold Bloom (Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University) provides readers with an informed and informative biography of Gabriel Garcia Marques, the South American writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature and whose most ...

Winesburg, Ohio
Sherwood Anderson

Caedmon, 2002

A timeless collection of short stories about an imaginary small town, unified by the presence of Winesburg Eagle reporter George Willard, Winesburg, Ohio is, as H.L. Mencken said upon it's publication in 1919, "...vivid, so full of insight, so shiningly life-like and glowing, that the book is lifted into a category all its own." Presented here ...