Away: A Novel

Away: A Novel
by Amy Bloom

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Author: Amy Bloom
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-06-24
ISBN: 0812977793
Number of pages: 256
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks

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Book Review: Luminous Character; excruciatingly beautiful book
Summary: 5 Stars

Amy Bloom takes the kernel of truth that a woman trekked up the Telegraph trail in Alaska to Siberia in the 1920's and tries to imagine what could drive anyone to do that. Love, and love of a daughter. And then Bloom creates the most amazing characters, and story, with excruciating beauty and truth. It is rough, and one of my friends found parts sordid, and yes That's so also, so do watch out... but it is so real, and the main character so lovely and true and brave, and some of the people who love her are so great, and the stories are riveting. I hope you will love it half as much as I do. I think it is purely amazing, and a gift about the richness of love and people and why we go on living.

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Panoramic in scope, Away is the epic and intimate story of young Lillian Leyb, a dangerous innocent, an accidental heroine. When her family is destroyed in a Russian pogrom, Lillian comes to America alone, determined to make her way in a new land. When word comes that her daughter, Sophie, might still be alive, Lillian embarks on an odyssey that takes her from the world of the Yiddish theater on New York's Lower East Side, to Seattle's Jazz District, and up to Alaska, along the fabled Telegraph Trail toward Siberia. All of the qualities readers love in Amy Bloom's work-her humor and wit, her elegant and irreverent language, her unflinching understanding of passion and the human heart-come together in the embrace of this brilliant novel, which is at once heartbreaking, romantic, and completely unforgettable.

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