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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.

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PublisherHighbridge Company

ISBN-101598875213

ISBN-139781598875218

eBay Product ID (ePID)62992731

Product Key Features

Publication Year2007

TopicGeneral, Historical

Book TitleAway

LanguageEnglish

GenreFiction

AuthorAmy Bloom

FormatCompact Disc

Dimensions

Item Height1.1in.

Item Length5.9in.

Item Weight8 Oz

Item Width5.1in.

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition22

Reviews"Amy Bloom gets more meaning into individual sentences than most authors manage in whole books."-New Yorker, "Amy Bloom gets more meaning into individual sentences than most authors manage in whole books."--New Yorker, Summary doesn't do justice to this compact epic's richness of episode and characterization, nor to the exemplary skill with which Bloom increases her story's resonance through dramatic foreshadowing of what lies ahead . . . .Echoes of Ragtime, Cold Mountain and Irving Howe's World of Our Fathers, in an amazingly dense, impressively original novel. --Kirkus Reviews (starred)

Dewey Decimal813.54

Edition DescriptionUnabridged Edition

Number of Pages1 Pages