- Paperback: 9999 pages
- Publisher: Picador; 2 edition (9 Jun 1995)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0330339885
- ISBN-13: 978-0330339889
- Product Dimensions: 19.7 x 1.2 x 13 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 528,120 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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‘The most impressive debut I have read this decade’ GQ
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‘This debut collection, human and humorous, is an impressive display . . . Bloom is uncensorious, revelling in the predicaments she has created for her protagonists and their instinct for survival . . . She has great flexibility of narrative voice, whether as a middle-aged furrier in love with a schoolgirl or a young boy who accidentally shoots his cousin with his father’s gun’ The Times ‘Bereavement, moral breakdown and sexual non-conformity are the deep waters into which Amy Bloom plunges in her first book – though causing scarcely a ripple in the smooth narrative surface . . . Bloom’s advice seems to be: whatever it takes to scrape through life, do it – grand gesture or compromise, sex or shopping’ Independent on Sunday ‘Amy Bloom’s debut collection is a book which beckons if it is put down unfinished, and which – although contemporary – provides all the engrossing satisfaction of a nineteenth-century novel’ Guardian ‘An impressive addition to the booming renaissance in the American short story. Bloom has all the elegant acuity of a modern day Flannery O’Connor . . . Her style is astonishingly versatile: wry and acerbic one minute; generous and passionate the next’ GQ ‘This is truly a collection that leaves the reader in a state of grace’ Sunday Times
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In the middle of the eulogy at my mother's boring and heartbreaking funeral, I began to think about calling off the wedding. Read the first page
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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Her stories are diverse. And yet they all deal with raw human emotions, relationships, but not typical ones. She could not have experienced these situations first hand and yet she seems as if she must have been there. They are true. I was swept away. They are a must for anyone attempting to write.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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This is a really great book of short stories - with just a few lines from each story the author manages to conjure up the scene. You are there with each character in each story. Highly recommended.
0 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Sheesh, another of them doodanged pointless writers. When I got to how many brothers and sisters the narrator's parents had, and then their children (this in a very brief story) I gave up. Where's the irony? Where's the fun? Where's the self-awareness, and where the despair? Well, this reader certainly felt the latter. If this is the model that creative writing classes adopt (see other review by aspiring writer) that explains a lot! I note, by the by, that in an interview in this week's Time Out Bloom says 'I'd identify myself first as a person'. Barely, in my view - or maybe author and reader need to exchange comfort zones, if this were possible; but isn't this what writing is supposed to accomplish anyway? Maybe I should just get out more (or stay in more? but hey, I'm only 66, I'm too young to settle down). Depressing, anyway
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