A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You - Vintage Contemporaries by Amy Bloom Paperback

About the Book

The author of "Come to Me" and "Love Invents Us" now presents a stunning new collection of short stories on the frontiers of emotion. "Exotic intimacies color [these] sharply wrought stories".--"The New York Times".

Book Synopsis

Amy Bloom was nominated for a National Book Award for her first collection, Come to Me, and her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Story, Antaeus, and other magazines, and in The Best American Short Stories and Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards. In her new collection, she enhances her reputation as a true artist of the form.

Here are characters confronted with tragedy, perplexed by emotions, and challenged to endure whatever modern life may have in store. A loving mother accompanies her daughter in her journey to become a man, and discovers a new, hopeful love. A stepmother and stepson meet again after fifteen years and a devastating mistake, and rediscover their familial affection for each other. And in "The Story," a widow bent on seducing another woman's husband constructs and deconstructs her story until she has "made the best and happiest ending" possible "in this world."

Review Quotes

"Exotic intimacies color [these] sharply wrought stories.... Ms. Bloom writes warmly and astutely, with arresting precision."-The New York Times

"With consummate skill and good grace, Bloom shows how people are capable of almost anything, and why."-San Francisco Chronicle

"Beautiful.... Bloom is a deft observer and penetrating chronicler of life's dramas."-The Miami Herald

About the Author

Amy Bloom is the author of four novels: White Houses, Lucky Us, Away, and Love Invents Us; and three collections of short stories: Where the God Of Love Hangs Out, Come to Me (finalist for the National Book Award), and A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You (finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award). Her first book of nonfiction, Normal: Transsexual CEOs, Crossdressing Cops and Hermaphrodites with Attitudes, is a staple of university sociology and biology courses. Her most recent book is the widely acclaimed New York Times bestselling memoir, In Love. She has written for magazines such as The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Vogue, Elle, The Atlantic, Slate, and Salon, and her work has been translated into fifteen languages. She is the Director of the Shapiro Center at Wesleyan University.