by Amy Bloom · Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780375750229
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«Love Invents Us» is Amy Bloom's coming-of-age novel, published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group in paperback (222 pages, in English).
The novel follows Elizabeth Taube, an only child of indifferent parents, who grows up in Long Island seeking affection. Elizabeth becomes involved with an English teacher, with the nearly blind Mrs. Hill and, later, with Huddie Lester. Amy Bloom portrays with irony and lucidity how desire and affection can twist and sustain a life.
«Love Invents Us» is Amy Bloom's first novel and belongs to the Vintage Contemporaries collection. Amy Bloom was a finalist for the National Book Award for Come to Me.
For readers of contemporary fiction and coming-of-age novels with a female protagonist, with an ironic and sensitive look at desire.
Amy Beth Bloom is an American writer and psychotherapist. She is professor of creative writing at Wesleyan University, and has been nominated for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
