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 finalist for the National Book Award, and here she deepens and extends her mastery of the form.
Real people inhabit these pages, the people we know and are, the people we long to be and are afraid to be: a mother and her brave, smart little girl, each coming to terms with the looming knowledge that the little girl will become a man; a wildly unreliable narrator bent on convincing us that her stories are not harmless; a woman with breast cancer, a frightened husband, and a best friend, all discovering that their lifelong triangle is not what they imagined; a man and his stepmother engaged in a complicated dance of memory, anger, and forgiveness. Amy Bloom takes us straight to the center of these lives with rare generosity and sublime wit, in flawless prose that is by turns sensuous, spare, heartbreaking, and laugh-out-loud funny.
These are transcendent stories: about the uncertain gestures of love, about the betrayals and gifts of the body, about the surprises and bounties of the heart, and about what comes to us unbidden and what we choose.
Real people inhabit these pages, the people we know and are, the people we long to be and are afraid to be: a mother and her brave, smart little girl, each coming to terms with the looming knowledge that the little girl will become a man; a wildly unreliable narrator bent on convincing us that her stories are not harmless; a woman with breast cancer, a frightened husband, and a best friend, all discovering that their lifelong triangle is not what they imagined; a man and his stepmother engaged in a complicated dance of memory, anger, and forgiveness. Amy Bloom takes us straight to the center of these lives with rare generosity and sublime wit, in flawless prose that is by turns sensuous, spare, heartbreaking, and laugh-out-loud funny.
These are transcendent stories: about the uncertain gestures of love, about the betrayals and gifts of the body, about the surprises and bounties of the heart, and about what comes to us unbidden and what we choose.
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Hardback Editions
April 2001 : Hardback
| Title: A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You (Thorndike Women's Fiction) Author(s): Amy Bloom ISBN: 0-7862-3290-0 / 978-0-7862-3290-1 (USA edition) Publisher: Thorndike Press Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
July 2000 : Hardback
| Title: A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You: Stories Author(s): Amy Bloom ISBN: 0-375-50268-8 / 978-0-375-50268-2 (USA edition) Publisher: Random House Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
Paperback Editions
October 2001 : Paperback
| Title: A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You Author(s): Amy Bloom ISBN: 0-330-37690-X / 978-0-330-37690-7 (UK edition) Publisher: Picador Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
July 2001 : Paperback
| Title: A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You : Stories Author(s): Amy Bloom ISBN: 0-375-70557-0 / 978-0-375-70557-1 (USA edition) Publisher: Vintage Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
October 2000 : Paperback
| Title: A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You Author(s): Amy Bloom ISBN: 0-330-37689-6 / 978-0-330-37689-1 (UK edition) Publisher: Picador Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
Audio Editions
2002 : Audio CD
| Title: A Blind Man Can See How Much I love You Author(s): Amy Bloom ISBN: 1-4025-4054-X (USA edition) Publisher: Recorded Books Availability: Amazon More details... |
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