Love Invents Us - (Vintage Contemporaries) by Amy Bloom (Paperback)

About the Book

National Book Award finalist Amy Bloom has written an unsettling tale which shows readers how profoundly the forces of love can shape their lives. Over the course of thirty years, three friends--two men and one woman--know each other, leave each other, and find each other again. Unsparingly real, funny, and razor-sharp, Bloom presents a love that is simultaneously delightful and painful, necessary and devastating.

Book Synopsis

A sharp and funny, rueful, and uncompromisingly real tale of growing up--from National Book Award finalist Amy Bloom

A chubby girl with smudged pink harlequin glasses and a habit of stealing Heath Bars from the local five-and-dime, Elizabeth Taube is the only child of parents whose indifference to her is the one sure thing in her life. When her search for love and attention leads her into the arms of her junior-high-school English teacher, things begin to get complicated.

And even her friend Mrs. Hill, a nearly blind, elderly black woman, can't protect her when real love--exhilarating, passionate, heartbreaking--enters her life in the gorgeous shape of Huddie Lester.

With her finely honed style and her unflinching sensibility, Bloom shows us how profoundly the forces of love and desire can shape a life.

Review Quotes

"Bloom is a truly excellent writer ... lyrical and funny ... there is a line worth quoting on almost every page of this book." --Los Angeles Times

About the Author

Amy Bloom is the author of four novels: White Houses, Lucky Us, Away, and Love Invents Us; and three collections of short stories: Where the God Of Love Hangs Out, Come to Me (finalist for the National Book Award), and A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You (finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award). Her first book of nonfiction, Normal: Transsexual CEOs, Crossdressing Cops and Hermaphrodites with Attitudes, is a staple of university sociology and biology courses. Her most recent book is the widely acclaimed New York Times bestselling memoir, In Love. She has written for magazines such as The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Vogue, Elle, The Atlantic, Slate, and Salon, and her work has been translated into fifteen languages. She is the Director of the Shapiro Center at Wesleyan University.