Where the God of Love Hangs Out (Random House Reader's Circle) - Softcover

Bloom, Amy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0812977807 ISBN 13: 9780812977806

Publisher: Random House Trade, 2011

Synopsis

Love, in its many forms and complexities, weaves through this collection by Amy Bloom, the New York Times bestselling author of Away. Bloom's astonishing and astute stories illuminate the mysteries of passion, family, and friendship. A young woman is haunted by her roommate's murder; a man and his daughter-in-law confess their sins in the unlikeliest of places; two middle-aged, married friends find themselves surprisingly drawn to each other, risking all for their love but never underestimating the cost. Propelled by Bloom's dazzling prose, unmistakable voice, and generous wit, Where the God of Love Hangs Out takes us to the margins and the centers of people's emotional lives, exploring the changes that come with love and loss.

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Review:

"Beautifully astute . . . extravagantly fine fiction." --Janet Maslin, The New York Times

"Wise and resounding . . . [Amy] Bloom joins the ranks of the unforgettable: F. Scott Fitzgerald's eyeless time; Virginia Woolf's impassivity in the progress of her characters' lives."--Los Angeles Times

"[Bloom] writes in beautifully wrought prose, with spunky humor and a flair for delectably eccentric details. . . . Brava."--The New York Times Book Review

"To read Bloom is to fall in love--with her characters and with the magic that language can make."--More

"Stirring . . . Characters [are] rendered in sexy, loving, living color."--San Francisco Chronicle

"[An] indelible new collection . . . Bloom illuminates the way our affections define us, old and young, for better or worse."--People

"Moving, shocking, written with compassion and understanding and generously reflective of the fragility of our lives."--The Miami Herald

About the Author:

Amy Bloom is the author of the bestselling and acclaimed Away; Come to Me, a National Book Award finalist; A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You, nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award; Love Invents Us; and Normal. Her stories have appeared in The Best American Short Stories, O. Henry Prize Short Stories, The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction, and many other anthologies here and abroad. She has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, Vogue, Granta, and Slate, among other publications, and has won a National Magazine Award. Bloom teaches creative writing at Yale University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House Trade
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0812977807
• ISBN 13: 9780812977806
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240