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| Original Title: | Love Invents Us |
| ISBN: | 0375750223 (ISBN13: 9780375750229) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Elizabeth Taube, Horace "Huddie" Lester, Max Stone |
Amy Bloom
Paperback | Pages: 224 pages Rating: 3.59 | 2107 Users | 211 Reviews
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National Book Award finalist Amy Bloom has written a tale of growing up that is sharp and funny, rueful and uncompromisingly real. A chubby girl with smudged pink harlequin glasses and a habit of stealing Heath Bars from the local five-and-dime, Elizabeth Taube is the only child of parents whose indifference to her is the one sure thing in her life. When her search for love and attention leads her into the arms of her junior-high-school English teacher, things begin to get complicated.And even her friend Mrs. Hill, a nearly blind, elderly black woman, can't protect her when real love--exhilarating, passionate, heartbreaking--enters her life in the gorgeous shape of Huddie Lester.
With her finely honed style and her unflinching sensibility, Bloom shows us how profoundly the forces of love and desire can shape a life.
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| Title | : | Love Invents Us |
| Author | : | Amy Bloom |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 224 pages |
| Published | : | January 27th 1998 by Vintage (first published December 30th 1996) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Short Stories. Romance. Contemporary. Novels |
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Ratings: 3.59 From 2107 Users | 211 ReviewsCriticism Epithetical Books Love Invents Us
I like the sadness. A lot of sadness and longing here, sometimes for no apparent reason. It felt like a memoir, only sadder. There was beautiful, spare writing throughout with a few absolutely fantastic descriptions ("And beneath those feet, my hands ... worn and rough as cedar bark. Ivory angel feet with opal nails and satin soles. And my hands became his steps."), but Bloom doesn't flaunt her skills, she teases, lets a reader peek. The simplicity of her writing makes such passages leap fromI haven't read this book in a long time... but I remember it like I just read it today. It was my go-to book when I needed a reading fix, something comfortable and unsettling at the same time. I could relate to Elizabeth and I hated the grown men who thought they loved her... I always wanted her to stay a child. I loved the writing, it was honest and blunt, no sugar coating. I will always remember it.
Be prepared. I am doing some Amy Bloom reading. White Houses is next. This book has complex characters as Amy Blooms books often do. There are uncomfortable situations - what happens when a high school teacher has a serious crush on a student? What responses may be temporarily damaging and what might lead to longer concerns? I will not say anything about the choices that are made but to say that this is a short but intense book. Read it. There are some odd parenting styles in the book and some
This book is hard to pin down with one or two adjectives. It's quirky, different but always interesting. The role of the young girl who you follow throughout her childhood up to her late 30's - early 40's was fascinating to track. One minute you liked her, the next you wanted to tell her to get her act together. Throughout it all, though you could sense her inner pain, her fragility, her defense mechanisms because of her childhood.Parenting plays a huge role, I felt, in this novel. The lack of
A coming of age novel that is both beautiful and uncomfortable at the same time, showing how love shapes us and comes in many different forms. A book I would like to re-read and an author I will definitely follow.
She's a terrific writer, I walked by her books dozens of times and finally picked this one up, her debut. Amy Bloom blew all the other female writers that I've read recently out of the water.
I'm a fan of Amy Bloom, but sometimes I wonder if that's mostly because I'll never get over one of her first short stories, "Love Is Not A Pie." What is best about her, for me, is in that first collection of stories: she writes about what is taboo directly and from a startling point of view that makes me appreciate the transcendence of love over our conventional limits. Plus, she writes so beautifully, she'd be irresistible no matter what she was writing about. Love Invents Us contains some of
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