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None. Fraught & beautiful (  ) BookishJoJo | Apr 6, 2013 |  Sex! Lies! Homosexuality! (Not the lesbian kind, Alfonso.) Anyway, I saw a lot of people who criticized Bloom for all of this. For what it's worth, I disagree. (  ) E.J | Apr 3, 2013 | I read Away for a book club at the library. I've never been to this book club, or actually -a- book club, and I'm kind of wishing this wasn't the book with which I'll start. The story centers around a Jewish immigrant to America who lost her family and everything in Russia. I have trouble deciding how her frank practicality about human relationships and stations in life makes me feel. I found her callous at first. I recognize that each of the people she meets affect her profoundly, even though she seems so cold to me as she meets each one of them, and I do like her in the end. I also enjoyed getting to find out what happens to each of them after she leaves them. At any rate, not something I would usually pick up on my own, but not boring or unlikable, either. ( ) alwright1 | Mar 31, 2013 | Amazing writing. ( )1  Joybrarian | Mar 31, 2013 | I just wasn't that into this book. I had to keep reading some of the sentences over and over again to figure out what the author was saying. The story was supposed to be "epic", but it just wasn't very interesting. (  ) periwinklejane | Mar 31, 2013 | no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0812977793, Paperback)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 takes her from the world of the Yiddish theater on New York’s Lower East Side, to Seattle’s Jazz District, and up to Alaska, along the fabled Telegraph Trail toward Siberia. All of the qualities readers love in Amy Bloom’s work–her humor and wit, her elegant and irreverent language, her unflinching understanding of passion and the human heart–come together in the embrace of this brilliant novel, which is at once heartbreaking, romantic, and completely unforgettable.(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 04 Jan 2013 01:22:16 -0500) Arriving in America alone after her family is destroyed in a Russian pogrom, Lillian Leyb receives word that her daughter Sophie might still be alive and embarks on a risky odyssey that takes her from New York's Lower East Side to Siberia to find the missing girl.… (more) |
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