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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.
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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In this first novel, Amy Bloom spins the tale of one Elizabeth Taube, charting her progress from an unloved adolescent to (alas) an unloved, middle-aged mother. To be sure, Elizabeth has had no shortage of suitors. Yet, one by one, they desert her, leaving nothing but their imprints upon her personality--which, if we are to take the title literally, is almost all the personality we have. The author steers clear of sentimentalizing her heroine's plight. And Bloom's eerie ability to convey physical sensation--which also distinguished her story collection Come to Me--is on ample and impressive display.
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"Bloom is a truly excellent writer. . . lyrical and funny. . . . There is a line worth quoting on almost every page of this book."
--Los Angeles Times
"Bloom's precise, sensual and heartbreaking tale reminds us that the most exquisite of pleasures can be wedded to the most searing of sorrows."
--Chicago Tribune
"Amy Bloom writes about love and desire with more visceral power than anyone I know. . . . This novel is marvelous."
--Dorothy Allison, author of Bastard Out of Carolina
"Bloom describes complicated emotional states with great sensitivity and tenderness."
--The New York Times Book Review
--Los Angeles Times
"Bloom's precise, sensual and heartbreaking tale reminds us that the most exquisite of pleasures can be wedded to the most searing of sorrows."
--Chicago Tribune
"Amy Bloom writes about love and desire with more visceral power than anyone I know. . . . This novel is marvelous."
--Dorothy Allison, author of Bastard Out of Carolina
"Bloom describes complicated emotional states with great sensitivity and tenderness."
--The New York Times Book Review
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- Publication date1998
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