Wednesday March 5 2008 / Arts & Philosophy
Amy Bloom: Away
The John Adams Institute is proud to present a lecture with Amy Bloom.
Amy Bloom trained as a psychotherapist, but her prose is anything but analytical. Her sensitive exploration of human interactions, expressed in a style that is luminous yet engagingly direct, has won her many fans and awards. Her new novel, Away, tells the picaresque story of a Russian Jew in the 1920s whose family is killed in a pogrom and who then finds her way to New York and its Yiddish theater world. News that her daughter may be alive - in Siberia - then sparks an improbable transcontinental trek. Critics have hailed it as "far and away one of the best books of the year." The New York Times called it "a classic page-turner, one that delivers a relentlessly good read." Join us for an evening with one of America's finest writers of fiction.
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