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Title: Come to Me: Stories by Amy Bloom ISBN: 0060995149 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: April, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.29
Rating: 5
Summary: A world in each story
Comment: Having read her other books, Love Invents Us, and A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You, I think "Come To Me," is Amy Bloom's finest by far.
Each story broaches delicate issues of life and death, love and loss, and definition of family with humor and humility. Nothing is taken for granted, including the way she carefully chooses each word, each turn in the story.
Enter the beginning story with Ellen at her mother's funeral in "Love is Not a Pie." Watch as Henry and Marie contemplate monogamy and negotiate the confines of their relationship in "Faultlines" and "Only You." Follow Violet as she watches her sister fall apart in "Silver Water."
The endings of Amy Bloom's stories are surprising not because of shocking leaps in logic or tumultuous events, but because the world in each story unfolds so gently, envelopingly, and it is a jolt when each closes up again, leaving you with the imprint of a world gone, as quickly as it unfolded.
Amy Bloom knows humanity, and love with all its crinkles and idiosyncracies. Each story could be a book, and you will wish, as I did, for them to continue.
Rating: 4
Summary: Unique Subject Matter
Comment: "Come to Me" is a book of short stories. Each one dealing with outrageous, extraodinary, unimaginable subject matter.
Such as..."Love is not a Pie" about a husband and wife who bring another man into their bed.
OR..."Sleepwalking" A stepmother seduces her stepson. (Naughty)
"Silver Water"... A tearjerker about a girl remembering her sister's
life and suicide.
"Only You"...A bored housewife who falls head over heals with her hairdresser who happens to be a transvestite.
My favorite---"Phychoanalysis Changed My Life"...A (very smart) therapist has a plan to set her son up with a patient. (unexpected and colorful)!
If you're seaching for skillful writing, unique metaphor, truth, and the element of uncut surprise...this is definitely the book for you.
>>NOTE>> Even though I did not agree with some of the subject matter, I found myself identifying with the characters.
Rating: 5
Summary: An Amazing Collection of Short Stories
Comment: Amy Bloom surpasses the majority of modern and postmodern writers in her ability to walk us along the thin line between bliss and sorrow, hope and despair, often tempting us to jump or fall, but ultimately maintaining her course and bringing us to the end where the line dissolves. Her language is sensual decadence for the reader, but her control and neutrality towards beauty enable her to escape the pitfall of sentimentality.
_Love Invents Us_, a novel which she developed out of one of the stories found here ("Light Breaks Where No Sun Shines"), is certainly worth the read, particularly for fans of this book.
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Title: A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You : Stories by Amy Bloom ISBN: 0375705570 Publisher: Vintage Books Pub. Date: 31 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Love Invents Us by Amy Bloom ISBN: 0375750223 Publisher: Vintage Books Pub. Date: January, 1998 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Selected Stories of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Marjorie Pryse ISBN: 0393301060 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: September, 1991 List Price(USD): $18.15 |
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Title: The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever ISBN: 0375724427 Publisher: Vintage Books Pub. Date: 09 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Everything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'Connor, Robert Fitzgerald ISBN: 0374504644 Publisher: Noonday Press Pub. Date: August, 1996 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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