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Come to Me: Stories

by Amy Bloom

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This fresh and stunning National Book Award nominee is a collection of stories that takes the reader deep into the heart of the most alarming and joyful human relationships. "Amy Bloom considers the complicated dynamics of families with insight, sympathy, and verve".--New York Times Book Review.

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"[Bloom is] at her best in showing how people really think, as in...the title story, in which Bloom achieves a soaring complexity in characters whose strange behavior eludes any simple psychological explanation." Publishers Weekly

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"Practicing psychotherapist Bloom has written 12 powerful short stories in a debut collection that abounds in psychological insights. Deviant human behavior is portrayed compassionately and honestly." Library Journal

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Nominated for a National Book Award, this fresh and stunning collection of stories takes the reader deep into the heart of the most alarming and joyful human relationships.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780060995140
Subtitle:
Stories
Author:
Bloom, Amy
Author:
by Amy Bloom
Publisher:
Harper Perennial
Location:
New York, NY :
Subject:
General
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
Social life and customs
Subject:
United states
Subject:
Short Stories (single author)
Subject:
General Fiction
Subject:
Short stories
Subject:
United States Social life and customs.
Copyright:
1994
Edition Description:
1st HarperPerennial ed.
Publication Date:
April 1994
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
192
Dimensions:
8.00x5.31x.51 in. .33 lbs.
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