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"A gusty tale of displacement and love ... a mesmerising journey" -- Daily Mail
"A tender, funny and wise novel" -- Marie Claire
"Away is a literary triumph, a book-club must and a popular novel destined for wide readership" -- New York Times
"Away is a story to sink your heart into" -- Elle
"Exceptional ... Bloom's prose is full of an energy that can make you gasp" -- Daily Telegraph
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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."About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
- PublisherGranta Books
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 1862079706
- ISBN 13 9781862079700
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages224
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