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"Away" is the extraordinary story of young Lillian Leyb. Her family destroyed in a Russian pogrom, Lillian comes to America alone, determined to make her way. In 1920s New York she is taken under the wing of Mr Reuben Burstein, the famous Impresario and his matinee-idol son Meyer. But then her wily cousin Raisele arrives with some unexpected news about Lillian's young daughter Sophie. Driven by a wild hope, Lillian sets off on an odyssey across America, travelling from New York's Lower East Side to Seattle's Skid Row and up to Alaska, along the fabled Telegraph Trail towards Siberia. Amy Bloom's first novel for eight years revitalises the American road trip novel, from the perspective of a vulnerable but spirited woman.It paints a vivid, earthy and surprising picture of 1920s America, its smells and textures, its population of drifters and con artists, pimps and prostitutes. "Away" is storytelling at its finest - epic in sweep, but intimate and psychologically acute, moving but unsentimental. Like the novels of Sarah Waters, it is both richly authentic in its period detail, and fresh and contemporary in its style. But above all Bloom has created an unforgettable character in Lillian Leyb - her voice, haunted/damaged yet innocent, passionate, witty and unpretentious, is so believable and strong that her presence lingers long after the novel ends.
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Away's greatest pleasures are its elegant prose and verbal richness
-- The Observer
This exceptional novel...a plot-thick, richly rewarding story, is Amy Bloom's most accomplished writing to date -- The Guardian
[A] powerfully realised novel... the author's empathy for her characters... makes us believe in the reality of their lives -- The Times
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-- The Observer
This exceptional novel...a plot-thick, richly rewarding story, is Amy Bloom's most accomplished writing to date -- The Guardian
[A] powerfully realised novel... the author's empathy for her characters... makes us believe in the reality of their lives -- The Times
Amy Bloom is the author of two collections of stories, Come to Me and A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You, a novel, Love Invents Us, and a non-fiction book, Normal. A practising psychotherapist, Bloom teaches creative writing at Yale University
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- PublisherHighbridge Co
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 1602527415
- ISBN 13 9781602527416
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