Vintage, 2000. Book. Second book of short stories by Bloom and a finalist for National Book Critics Circle Award. Stories, mostly of families and relationships. SIGNED by Bloom, FIRST PRINTING, VERY GOOD COPY of this Vintage Trade Paperback edition..

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"Amy Bloom gets more meaning into individual sentences than most authors manage in whole books."--The New YorkerA great short story has the emotional depth and intensity of a poem and the wholeness and breadth of a novel. Amy Bloom writes great short stories. Her first collection, Come to Me, was a finalist for the National Book Award, and here she deepens and extends her mastery of the form. Real people inhabit these pages, the people we know and are, the people we long to be and are afraid to be: a mother and her brave, smart little girl, each coming to terms with the looming knowledge that the little girl will become a man; a wildly unreliable narrator bent on convincing us that her stories are not harmless; a woman with breast cancer, a frightened husband, and a best friend, all discovering that their lifelong triangle is not what they imagined; a man and his stepmother engaged in a complicated dance of memory, anger, and forgiveness. Amy Bloom takes us straight to the center of these lives with rare generosity and sublime wit, in flawless prose that is by turns sensuous, spare, heartbreaking, and laugh-out-loud funny. These are transcendent stories: about the uncertain gestures of love, about the betrayals and gifts of the body, about the surprises and bounties of the heart, and about what comes to us unbidden and what we choose.From the Hardcover edition.

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Bookseller: PittCo Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 000498
Title: A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You
Author: Bloom, Amy
Book Condition: Used
Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Binding: Paperback
ISBN 10: 0375502688
ISBN 13: 9780375502682
Publisher: Vintage
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 2000
Keywords: Short Story, American Fiction, Women's Studies, Signed, Relationships, Women Writers, First Edition,
Bookseller catalogs: Signed; Women's Studies;

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