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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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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