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Loading... Love Invents Us (1997)by Amy Bloom
  
No current Talk conversations about this book. This just wasn't my cup of tea. Though well-written and thoughtful, I found the plot rambling and unconvincing at times. (  ) aseikonia | Sep 2, 2012 |  Pretty raunchy and unsatisfying ending. ( ) HeidiDenney | Feb 7, 2012 | This is another example of a reasonably talented writer who blows it in terms of style and character motivation. Bloom’s novel is about the life of a woman and the men who love her throughout it. And while the story seems to flow effortlessly at many points, at others – especially when describing sex – the language becomes self-conscious and overly flowery, trying a bit too hard to be stylistic. I would tolerate that if I found the characters a bit more likeable. But I could never get a handle on them. I didn’t believe that they really loved one another, not for so long, not over so many absences. I might have accepted that for the central couple, the high schools sweethearts in an interracial relationship, separated by an intolerant father. But I couldn’t believe it for the junior high school teacher who falls for his student and maintains that love for her until she becomes an adult and nurses him through his terminal illness, seemingly motivated by her own asexual love for him. So that’s where the story fell apart for me. What were these people doing? When were they going to change? By the end, I didn’t particularly care. (  ) sturlington | Oct 19, 2011 | not very memorable ( ) dawnlovesbooks | Sep 8, 2006 | kristykay22 | Jul 3, 2006 |
 Aber ihre Gabe, Figuren plastisch vor Augen zu stellen, atmosphärisch dichte Szenen zu entwerfen und vor allem ihr Witz versöhnen mit vielem. Die heute fünfundvierzigjährige Amy Bloom gilt als eine der späten Hoffnungen der amerikanischen Literatur. Das bestätigt ihr erster Roman allemal, auch wenn er die Hoffnungen noch nicht ganz einlöst. Belongs to Publisher SeriesHas the adaptation
National Book Award finalist Amy Bloom has written a tale of growing up that is sharp and funny, rueful and uncompromisingly real.nbsp;nbsp;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 her is the one sure thing in her life.nbsp;nbsp; When her search for love and attention leads her into the arms of her junior-high-school English teacher, things begin to get complicated.nbsp;nbsp; And even her friend Mrs. Hill, a nearly blind, elderly black woman, can't protect her when real love--exhilarating, passionate, heartbreaking--enters her life in the gorgeous shape of Huddie Lester.nbsp;nbsp; With her finely honed style and her unflinching sensibility, Bloom shows us how profoundly the forces of love and desire can shape a life.nbsp;nbsp; No library descriptions found. |
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