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Amy Bloom

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January 01, 1953

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Amy Bloom is the author of "Come to Me," a National Book Award finalist; "A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You," nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award; "Love Invents Us"; and "Normal." Her stories have appeared in Best American Short Stories, O. Henry Prize Short Stories, The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction, and many other anthologies here and abroad. She has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, Vogue, Slate, and Salon, among other publications, and has won a National Magazine Award. Bloom teaches creative writing at Yale University.


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Average rating: 3.64 · 20,134 ratings · 2,763 reviews · 19 distinct works · Similar authors
Away
3.32 of 5 stars 3.32 avg rating — 6,634 ratings — published 1996 — 23 editions
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Where the God of Love Hangs...
3.48 of 5 stars 3.48 avg rating — 1,756 ratings — published 2009 — 14 editions
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A Blind Man Can See How Muc...
3.87 of 5 stars 3.87 avg rating — 1,561 ratings — published 2000 — 8 editions
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Come to Me
4.03 of 5 stars 4.03 avg rating — 1,432 ratings — published 1993 — 5 editions
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Love Invents Us
3.6 of 5 stars 3.60 avg rating — 1,270 ratings — published 1996 — 14 editions
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Normal: Transsexual CEOs, C...
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3.5 of 5 stars 3.50 avg rating — 272 ratings — published 2002 — 3 editions
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Between Here and Here
3.71 of 5 stars 3.71 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions
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Silver Water
4.37 of 5 stars 4.37 avg rating — 19 ratings
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3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2004
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“Love at first sight is easy to understand; it's when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.”
― Amy Bloom
tags: love
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“You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.”
― Amy Bloom
tags: beauty, body-image, imperfections, self-acceptance
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“Everyone has two memories. The one you can tell and the one that is stuck to the underside of that, the dark, tarry smear of what happened.”
― Amy Bloom, Away
tags: confessions, memory, nostalgia
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