Love Invents Us - Hardcover

Bloom, Amy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679441093 ISBN 13: 9780679441090

Publisher: Random House, 1996

Synopsis

This stunning novel by National Book Award finalist Amy Bloom, author of Come to Me, follows the passions of Elizabeth Taube from childhood to middle age, as she finds herself through love--good, bad, and dangerous. 224 pp. Author tour. National print ads. 40,000 print.

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Review:

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.

From the Back Cover:

"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

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0679441093
• ISBN 13: 9780679441090
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 205