Away by Amy Bloom
Moll Flanders in America, this epic, intimate novel follows a young Russian immigrant determined to make her way and find her daughter in the hip, harsh 1920s.On a morning in 1924, a young woman rises from the floor of her family's small home in Belorussia to find her parents and her husband slaughtered beside her and her infant daughter, Sophie, missing. When her aunt tells her the baby is dead, Lillian emigrates to America. She is working as a seamstress at the Yiddish Theater and enjoying cafe society when a cousin arrives and insists that her daughter is still alive in Siberia.
Lillian cannot stop dreaming of Sophie; she feels she must get to Russia, yet she can't afford the passage. Her only friend, an actor turned tailor, steals atlases from the New York Public Library and sews them into an overcoat for her. She crosses North America by rail, truck, and foot, encountering drifters, wardens, pimps, missionaries, and tattoo artists. From Dawson City, Alaska, she sets sail for Russia. She falls in love, falls in with the wrong people, leaps before she looks, hopes hard, and refuses to give up.
Inspired by a true story, Away is Moll Flanders in America and Odysseus in the Jazz Age: big, wide, brilliantly imagined, unexpectedly funny, and unforgettable.
Amy Bloom is the author of the short story collection Come to Me and the book Love Invents Us. Her work has appeared in a variety of periodicals, including The New Yorker, Antaeus, Story, Mirabella, Self, Vogue, and Talk, as well as numerous anthologies in the United States and overseas, including The Best American Short Stories; Prize Stories: The O. The Scribner Anthology of Modern Short Fiction, The Hidden Self: A Century of Short Tales by Women, and The Henry Awards She resides in Connecticut and works as a psychotherapist.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| EAN | 9781598875218 |
| Title | Away |
| Release date | 2007-08-21 |
| Format | Audiobook |
| Studio | Highbridge Company |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Note | Unavailable |
| By (author) | Amy Bloom |
| Read by | Barbara Rosenblat |