Recensione:
Advance Praise for Normal
“Amy Bloom’s wonderful eye and ear are evident as she encounters people for whom gender is a complex issue. Bloom cares for her subjects but retains her objectivity; her great skill is in extracting and weaving from the specific stories her own original thesis about sexuality and gender. This is an important work.”
—Abraham Verghese, author of My Own Country and The Tennis Partner
“Wonderfully written, thoughtfully and compassionately told, this book stretches the concept of ‘normal’ to show how elastic, how all-embracing, nature’s view of gender really is. It’s a mind-opening, spirit-enlarging book.”
—Deborah Tannen, author of You Just Don’t Understand and I Only Say This Because I Love You
Praise for Amy Bloom
“Amy Bloom is possessed of great subtlety and rock-solid integrity. Her stories crackle with subvert revelation. She is a compassionate writer who, more important, loves the world too much to sentimentalize it.”
—Michael Cunningham, about A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You
“Amy Bloom gets more meaning into individual sentences than most authors manage in whole books.”
—The New Yorker, about A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You
“The highest compliment I can pay a writer is to say that her work is Chekhovian—which is to say that its fine, fierce intelligence is matched by its compassion....This is a rare book.”
—Rosellen Brown, about Love Invents Us
“Amy Bloom has many voices and lives many lives....Come to Me is charged from the first line....Then, step by step, it gathers weight, texture and power, and suddenly it ends with what is really another beginning....We know we are in the hands of a real writer.”
—Margo Jefferson, The New York Times, about Come to Me
L'autore:
Amy Bloom is the author of A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You, Come to Me, and a novel, Love Invents Us. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, and Harper’s Bazaar, among other publications, and in many anthologies, including The Best American Short Stories; Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards; and The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction. A practicing psychotherapist, she lives in Connecticut and teaches at Yale University.
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