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Amy Bloom - Where the God of Love Hangs Out
Released: 04/03/2010
Granta
Author Amy Bloom has a sharp observational eye, and this collection of stories demonstrates her remarkable talent for picking out details from situations - the beginning of a quasi-incestuous affair and the aftermath of a tragedy, for instance. Genuine, touching and never mundane.
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Financial Times“This is unrelentingly pleasurable fiction...” Bloom’s writing mananges to be at once light and grave. She takes her characters with a seriousness that makes them real. That is the odd, neat trick of all good fiction...
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The Independent“Beautifully understated...” Bloom's characters are the ones left on the cutting-room floor. They don't make the grade of a traditional love story, and they know it...
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The Scotsman“Her gift for dialogue is equally terrific...” She writes in beautifully wrought prose, with spunky humour and a flair for delectably eccentric details. Her narrative talents include a fine touch with flashbacks, which she handles as suavely as any writer I can think of...
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Publishers Weekly“Love in many forms...” The four stand-alone stories, while nice, have a hard time measuring up against the more immersive interlinked material, which, really, is quite sublime...
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Guardian“Bloom achieves a spare, elegant poetry...” In Bloom's capable hands, the short story is perfect for depicting lives in which love hangs out in snatched, secret moments of hectic days...
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The New York Times“Beautifully astute...” Ms. Bloom, who has worked as a psychotherapist as well as a creative writing professor, clearly has great gifts in both those realms. She writes characters who are stunning in their verisimilitude but never really predictable in their behavior...
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