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Amy Bloom


Amy Bloom is the author of the bestselling and acclaimed Away; Come to Me, a National Book Award finalist; A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You, nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award; Love Invents Us; and Normal. Her stories have appeared in The Best American Short Stories, O. Henry Prize Short Stories, The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction, and many other anthologies here and abroad. She has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, Vogue, Granta, and Slate, among other publications, and has won a National Magazine Award. Bloom...

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Where the God of Love Hangs Out
Written by Amy Bloom

eBook | pages | Random House | Fiction - Short Stories (single author)
978-1-58836-987-1 (1-58836-987-0)

January 12, 2010 | $29.95



Love, in its many forms and complexities, weaves through this collection by Amy Bloom, the New York Times bestselling author of Away. Bloom's astonishing and astute new work of interconnected stories illuminates the mysteries of passion, family, and friendship.

Propelled by Bloom's dazzling prose, unmistakable voice, and generous wit, Where the God...

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Where the God of Love Hangs Out
Written by Amy Bloom

Hardcover | 224 pages | Random House | Fiction - Short Stories (single author)
978-1-4000-6357-4 (1-4000-6357-4)

January 12, 2010 | $29.95

(Available January 12, 2010)


Love, in its many forms and complexities, weaves through this collection by Amy Bloom, the New York Times bestselling author of Away. Bloom's astonishing and astute new work of interconnected stories illuminates the mysteries of passion, family, and friendship.

Propelled by Bloom's dazzling prose, unmistakable voice, and generous wit, Where the God...

Also available as an eBook.

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A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You
Written by Amy Bloom

eBook | pages | Vintage | Fiction - Short Stories (single author)
978-0-307-41785-5 (0-307-41785-9)

July 8, 2009 | $15.95



"Amy Bloom gets more meaning into individual sentences than most authors manage in whole books."

--The New Yorker


A great short story has the emotional depth and intensity of a poem and the wholeness and breadth of a novel. Amy Bloom writes great short stories. Her first collection, Come to Me, was a...

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Away
Written by Amy Bloom

Trade Paperback | 256 pages | Random House Trade Paperbacks | Fiction
978-0-8129-7779-0 (0-8129-7779-3)

June 24, 2008 | $16.50



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...

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Away
Written by Amy Bloom

Hardcover | 256 pages | Random House | Fiction
978-1-4000-6356-7 (1-4000-6356-6)

August 21, 2007 | $29.95



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...

Also available as an eBook and a trade paperback.

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Away
Written by Amy Bloom

eBook | pages | Random House | Fiction
978-1-58836-649-8 (1-58836-649-9)

August 21, 2007 | $16.99



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...

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The Wings of the Dove
Written by Henry James
Introduction by Amy Bloom

Paperback | 768 pages | Modern Library | Fiction
978-0-8129-7211-5 (0-8129-7211-2)

August 3, 2004 | $9.95



(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...

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Normal
Written by Amy Bloom

Trade Paperback | 176 pages | Vintage | Psychology & Psychiatry - Human Sexuality
978-1-4000-3244-0 (1-4000-3244-X)

September 9, 2003 | $17.99



Amy Bloom has won a devoted readership and wide critical acclaim for fiction of rare humor, insight, grace, and eloquence, and the same qualities distinguish Normal, a provocative, intimate journey into the lives of “people who reveal, or announce, that their gender is variegated rather than monochromatic”—female-to-male transsexuals, heterosexual crossdressers, and...


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The Wings of the Dove
Written by Henry James
Introduction by Amy Bloom

Trade Paperback | 768 pages | Modern Library | Fiction - Classics
978-0-8129-6719-7 (0-8129-6719-4)

April 8, 2003 | $14.95



Set amid the splendor of London drawing rooms and gilded Venetian palazzos, The Wings of the Dove is the story of Milly Theale, a naïve, doomed American heiress, and a pair of lovers, Kate Croy and Merton Densher, who conspire to obtain her fortune. In this witty tragedy of treachery, self-deception...

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A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You
Written by Amy Bloom

Trade Paperback | 176 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Short Stories (single author)
978-0-375-70557-1 (0-375-70557-0)

July 31, 2001 | $15.95



Amy Bloom was nominated for a National Book Award for her first collection, Come to Me, and her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Story, Antaeus, and other magazines, and in The Best American Short Stories and Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards. In her new collection, she enhances her...

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Persuasion
Written by Jane Austen
Introduction by Amy Bloom

Trade Paperback | 224 pages | Modern Library | Fiction - Classics
978-0-375-75729-7 (0-375-75729-5)

June 12, 2001 | $7.95




Called a 'perfect novel' by Harold Bloom, Persuasion was written while Jane Austen was in failing health. She died soon after its completion, and it was published in an edition with Northanger Abbey in 1818.

In the novel, Anne Elliot, the heroine Austen called 'almost too good for me,' has let...

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Love Invents Us
Written by Amy Bloom

Trade Paperback | 224 pages | Vintage | Fiction
978-0-375-75022-9 (0-375-75022-3)

January 27, 1998 | $16.95



National Book Award finalist Amy Bloom has written a tale of growing up that is sharp and funny, rueful and uncompromisingly real.  A chubby girl with smudged pink harlequin glasses and a habit of stealing Heath Bars from the local five-and-dime, Elizabeth Taube is the only child of parents whose indifference to...