Come to Me: Stories - Hardcover

Bloom, Amy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060182369 ISBN 13: 9780060182366

Publisher: Harpercollins, 1993

Synopsis

A first collection of short stories features tales of psychiatrists crossing professional boundaries, a small girl in need of love, a frightened father in need of redemption, and wives who become mistresses.

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Review:

‘This debut collection, human and humorous, is an impressive display . . . Bloom is uncensorious, revelling in the predicaments she has created for her protagonists and their instinct for survival . . . She has great flexibility of narrative voice, whether as a middle-aged furrier in love with a schoolgirl or a young boy who accidentally shoots his cousin with his father’s gun’ The Times

‘Bereavement, moral breakdown and sexual non-conformity are the deep waters into which Amy Bloom plunges in her first book – though causing scarcely a ripple in the smooth narrative surface . . . Bloom’s advice seems to be: whatever it takes to scrape through life, do it – grand gesture or compromise, sex or shopping’ Independent on Sunday

‘Amy Bloom’s debut collection is a book which beckons if it is put down unfinished, and which – although contemporary – provides all the engrossing satisfaction of a nineteenth-century novel’ Guardian

‘An impressive addition to the booming renaissance in the American short story. Bloom has all the elegant acuity of a modern day Flannery O’Connor . . . Her style is astonishingly versatile: wry and acerbic one minute; generous and passionate the next’ GQ

‘This is truly a collection that leaves the reader in a state of grace’ Sunday Times

Book Description:

‘The most impressive debut I have read this decade’ GQ

About this edition

• Publisher: Harpercollins
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0060182369
• ISBN 13: 9780060182366
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1