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There is probably more than one author named Amy Bloom. Amy Bloom (b. 1953) is an American writer who has worked as a psychotherapist and is the author of both fiction and nonfiction. She wrote "Away" and most of the books listed on this page but probably not the book about lacing.
- Away 1,550 copies, 99 reviews
- Come to Me: Stories 500 copies, 9 reviews
- Love Invents Us 429 copies, 5 reviews
- A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You : Stories 420 copies, 5 reviews
- Where the God of Love Hangs Out: Fiction 340 copies, 31 reviews
- Normal: Transsexual CEOs, Crossdressing Cops, and Hermaphrodites with… 160 copies, 3 reviews
- Little Sweet Potato 10 copies, 1 review
- Between Here and Here (short story) 3 copies
- Compassion and Mercy (in Granta 106 - CLARK) 1 copy
- The Story (in The Best American Short Stories 2000 - KENISON) 1 copy
- ailleurs, plus loin 1 copy
- Amy Bloom-member choice 1 copy
- Silver Bloom (in Wild Women - THOMAS) 1 copy
- STORY (Vol. 39 No. 4 / Autumn 1991) 1 copy
- Persuasion (Introduction, some editions) 16,297 copies, 288 reviews
- For the Love of Books: 115 Celebrated Writers on the Books They Love Most (Contributor) 313 copies, 3 reviews
- The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: Fifty North American… (Contributor) 254 copies, 2 reviews
- The Book That Changed My Life: 71 Remarkable Writers Celebrate the Books… (Contributor) 227 copies, 5 reviews
- The Best American Short Stories 1992 (Contributor) 156 copies, 2 reviews
- A Fictional History of the United States (with Huge Chunks Missing) (Contributor) 64 copies, 2 reviews
- Altared: Bridezillas, Bewilderment, Big Love, Breakups, and What Women… (Contributor) 59 copies, 5 reviews
- It's a Girl: Women Writers on Raising Daughters (Contributor) 32 copies
- Make Mine a Double: Why Women Like Us Like to Drink (Or Not) (Contributor) 21 copies, 13 reviews
- The New Great American Writers' Cookbook (Contributor) 14 copies
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Amy Bloom has 13 past events. (show) 2012 Great Neck Reads "Away" Author Event with Amy Bloom Amy Bloom discusses Away. Great Neck Library is proud to honor Great Neck native Amy Bloom in the selection of her lyrical novel "AWAY" as the 2012 GREAT NECK READS choice. GREAT NECK READS is a community reading program which encourages people in Great Neck to read and discuss the same book at the same time in discussion groups and at other library-sponsored events. This event is free and open to the public. Great Neck residents will be seated first. Copies of Amy Blooms work will be available for purchase and signing following the event. (Janet126)… (more)  Margot Livesey, The Flight of Gemma Hardy “Gemma is real—it’s as simple as that. And through her eyes we see step by step what it means . . . to take possession of one’s own life.” David Wroblewski, author of The Story of Edgar Sawtelle“In The Flight of Gemma Hardy, Margot Livesey offers a new telling of Jane Eyre, for which no contemporary writer is better suited. As always, Livesey’s prose is a garden of pleasures: precision here, lyricism there, wit and compassionate insight throughout.” Amy Bloom, author of away
Margot Livesey is the acclaimed author of the novels The House on Fortune Street, Homework, Criminals, The Missing World, EVA Moves the Furniture and Banishing Verona. Her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker and The Atlantic Monthly, and she is the recipient of grants from both the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. The House on Fortune Street won the 2009 L.L. Winship/PEN New England Award. Livesey was born in Scotland and grew up on the edge of the Highlands. She currently lives in the Boston area and is a distinguished writer-in-residence at Emerson College.
Location: Street: Porter Square Shopping Center Additional: 25 White Street City: Cambridge, Province: Massachusetts Postal Code: 02140 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)Adult Book Discussion: "Away" by Amy Bloom Amy Blooms' Away: Thalia Book Club Thalia, Wednesday, October 29, 2008 at 7:30pm Amy Bloom reads from Away. In 1927, a Russian immigrant woman set off from New York City to walk home to Russia on foot. Amy Bloom tells how she took this kernel of historic fact and dreamed up a lush, epic, and yet wonderfully intimate novel. Jill Eikenberry performs an excerpt. (thaliatheater) Amy Bloom: AWAY Amy Bloom , Away. Meet the author Amy Bloom at this event for her book-club-perfect novel, Away. now available in paperback. Amy Bloom's collection of short stories, Come to Me, was a finalist for the National Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Fiction Award. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Story, Antaeus, River City, American Fiction, and other fiction magazines, and has been anthologized in the 1991 and 1992 Best American Short Stories collections and in the 1994 O. Henry Prize Story Collection. (booksense)… (more) Amy Bloom Warwick's, Monday, October 13, 2008 at 7:30pm Amy Bloom , Away. Amy Bloom - Away - Monday, October 13 at 7:30pmPlease check back soon for more event information. (booksense) Amy Bloom Warwick's, Friday, October 10, 2008 at 7:30pm Amy BloomAmy Bloom - Away - Monday, October 10 at 7:30pmPlease check back soon for more event information. (booksense) Amy Bloom Amy Bloom reads from Away. A familiar American tale begins with the immigrant experience and quickly elevates into a sweeping crosscountry saga. The story of a Jewish woman's search to find her young daughter is laden with linguistic tricks and deftly wrought characters. (ablachly)
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