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Away (Paperback) Loot Price: R222
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Away (Paperback): Amy Bloom

Away (Paperback)

Amy Bloom

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Amy Bloom's Away revitalizes 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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Imprint: Granta Books
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: May 2008
Authors: Amy Bloom
Dimensions: 198 x 130 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 978-1-84708-013-4
Categories: Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
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LSN: 1-84708-013-8
Barcode: 9781847080134

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Love the writing of Amy Bloom

Sat, 9 Jul 2022 | Review by: Susan M.

way is the epic and intimate story of young Lillian Leyb, a dangerous innocent, an accidental heroine. When her family is destroyed in a Russian pogrom, Lillian comes to America alone, determined to make her way in a new land. When word comes that her daughter, Sophie, might still be alive, Lillian embarks on an odyssey that takes her from the world of the Yiddish theater on New York's Lower East Side, to Seattle's Jazz District, and up to Alaska, along the fabled Telegraph Trail toward Siberia. Filled with heartbreak and redemption

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