Come to me : stories
Bloom, Amy , 1953-
Come to me : stories / Amy Bloom - New York : Harper Perennial , c1993. - 177 p. ; 21 cm.
Love is not a pie -- Song of Solomon -- Sleepwalking -- Hyacinths -- The sight of you -- Silver water -- Faultlines -- Only you -- Light breaks where no sun shines -- Semper fidelis -- When the year grows old -- Psychoanalysis changed my life.
Practicing psychotherapist Bloom has written 12 powerful short stories in a debut collection that abounds in psychological insights. Deviant human behavior is portrayed compassionately and honestly. In the story ``Love Is Not a Pie,'' a young girl learns the meaning of love when she witnesses her mother and father's involvement with another man in a menage a trois. In ``Only You,'' a woman who is obsessed with her hairdresser finds out that he delights in dressing up in her clothing. ``Silver Water'' depicts a family who must cope with the illness of their schizophrenic daughter. ``Sleepwalking'' portrays a moment of incest between a mother and stepson who comfort each other during a time of grief. Many of the stories feature the same characters and show the same family from different points of view and at different points in time.
9780060995140
Short stories
FIC BLO
Come to me : stories / Amy Bloom - New York : Harper Perennial , c1993. - 177 p. ; 21 cm.
Love is not a pie -- Song of Solomon -- Sleepwalking -- Hyacinths -- The sight of you -- Silver water -- Faultlines -- Only you -- Light breaks where no sun shines -- Semper fidelis -- When the year grows old -- Psychoanalysis changed my life.
Practicing psychotherapist Bloom has written 12 powerful short stories in a debut collection that abounds in psychological insights. Deviant human behavior is portrayed compassionately and honestly. In the story ``Love Is Not a Pie,'' a young girl learns the meaning of love when she witnesses her mother and father's involvement with another man in a menage a trois. In ``Only You,'' a woman who is obsessed with her hairdresser finds out that he delights in dressing up in her clothing. ``Silver Water'' depicts a family who must cope with the illness of their schizophrenic daughter. ``Sleepwalking'' portrays a moment of incest between a mother and stepson who comfort each other during a time of grief. Many of the stories feature the same characters and show the same family from different points of view and at different points in time.
9780060995140
Short stories
FIC BLO
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