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Away

By Amy Bloom

Away Contemporary literature

Away

By 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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
256
Release Date:
2008-06-02
Publication Date:
2008-06-02
Publisher:
Granta Books
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1847080138
ISBN13:
9781847080134
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
189 g
Height:
129 cm
Width:
197 cm
Thickness:
19 cm
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