Love Invents Us - Hardcover

Bloom, Amy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679441093 ISBN 13: 9780679441090

Publisher: Random House Inc, 1997

Synopsis

This stunning novel by National Book Award finalist Amy Bloom, author of Come to Me, follows the passions of Elizabeth Taube from childhood to middle age, as she finds herself through love--good, bad, and dangerous. 224 pp. Author tour. National print ads. 40,000 print.

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From the Publisher:

Passionate vindication of love, life and daring to differ
Love Invents Us describes, with breathtaking honesty and compassionate humour, the emotions of our ordinary lives. Elizabeth Taube, shy, chubby, isolated from parents who are as remote as planets, has to take love where she finds it: at the sweet counter at Frank's Five and Dime; in the mirror at Furs by Klein, where Mr Klein watches as she tries on his coats; and in the longing gaze of Max Stone, her married English teacher. Then, as she watches her high school basketball team practice one day, love captures her completely in the person of Huddie Lester. It takes Elizabeth, Huddie and the others whose lives intertwine with hers into places they never expected to be and into unknown parts of themselves. "Bloom writes with delicacy, wit and gut-wrenching power about the messy complexities of love, loss and damage, offering glimpses of human beings at their most vulnerable" Christina Patterson, Observer; "Bloom moves her prose along with exquisite wit and energy" Julie Myerson, Mail on Sunday

Book Description:

‘Masterful, humane and hilarious’ Kate Figes, Elle

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House Inc
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0679441093
• ISBN 13: 9780679441090
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 205