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Amy Bloom's first novel for eight years revitalises the American road trip novel, from the perspective of a vulnerable but spirited woman. It paints a vivid, earthy and surprising picture of 1920s America, its smells and textures, its population of drifters and con artists, pimps and prostitutes. "Away" is storytelling at its finest - epic in sweep, but intimate and psychologically acute, moving but unsentimental. Like the novels of Sarah Waters, it is both richly authentic in its period detail, and fresh and contemporary in its style. But above all Bloom has created an unforgettable character in Lillian Leyb - her voice, haunted, damaged yet innocent, passionate, witty and unpretentious, is so believable and strong that her presence lingers long after the novel ends.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Away
• Author: Amy Bloom
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256
• EAN: 9781847080134
• ISBN: 1847080138
• ID: 04280992
• Publisher: Granta Books
• Weight: 192 g
• Dimensions: 198 × 129 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 02. June 2008

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