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Amy Bloom


Born
1953, The United States
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Genre
Literature & Fiction, Short Stories, Gay and Lesbian


Amy Bloom is the New York Times bestselling author of White Houses; Come to Me, a National Book Award finalist; A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist; Love Invents Us; Normal; Away; Where the God of Love Hangs Out; and Lucky Us. Her stories have appeared in The Best American Short Stories, O. Henry Prize Short Stories, The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction, and many other anthologies. She has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, Vogue, O: The Oprah Magazine, Slate, Tin House, and Salon, among other publications, and has won a National Magazine Award.

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Average rating: 3.68 · 104,076 ratings · 12,316 reviews · 64 distinct works • Similar authors
In Love: A Memoir of Love a...
4.26 avg rating — 23,181 ratings — published 2022 — 5 editions
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White Houses
3.34 avg rating — 19,653 ratings — published 2018 — 7 editions
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Lucky Us
3.22 avg rating — 17,826 ratings — published 2014 — 36 editions
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Away
3.38 avg rating — 11,501 ratings — published 2007 — 43 editions
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Where the God of Love Hangs...
3.55 avg rating — 3,221 ratings — published 2009 — 26 editions
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A Blind Man Can See How Muc...
3.87 avg rating — 2,871 ratings — published 2000 — 19 editions
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Come to Me
4.10 avg rating — 2,673 ratings — published 1993 — 19 editions
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Love Invents Us
3.57 avg rating — 2,417 ratings — published 1996 — 26 editions
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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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“The past is a candle at great distance: too close to let you quit, too far to comfort you.”
― Amy Bloom, Away
tags: nostalgia
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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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