Away by Amy Bloom
An extraordinary story of young Lillian Leyb and her long odyssey across America.
Away is the extraordinary story of an accidental hero, young Lillian Leyb. Her family murdered in a Russian pogrom, in which her three-year-old daughter Sophie vanished, Lillian comes to America alone, determined to make her way. In 1920s New York she is taken under the wing of both Reuben and Meyer Burstein, the family Impresario and his matinee-idol son. But then Lillian's cousin Raisele arrives with news of Sophie. Driven by wild hope, Lillian sets off on an odyssey across America, travelling from New York's Lower East Side to Seattle's Skid Row and up to Alaska, along the fabled Telegraph Trail.
Away is storytelling at its finest - epic in scope, intimate and psychologically acute, big hearted, witty and unsentimental.
Away is the extraordinary story of an accidental hero, young Lillian Leyb. Her family murdered in a Russian pogrom, in which her three-year-old daughter Sophie vanished, Lillian comes to America alone, determined to make her way. In 1920s New York she is taken under the wing of both Reuben and Meyer Burstein, the family Impresario and his matinee-idol son. But then Lillian's cousin Raisele arrives with news of Sophie. Driven by wild hope, Lillian sets off on an odyssey across America, travelling from New York's Lower East Side to Seattle's Skid Row and up to Alaska, along the fabled Telegraph Trail.
Away is storytelling at its finest - epic in scope, intimate and psychologically acute, big hearted, witty and unsentimental.
Format: Paperback | 224 pages
Dimensions (cm): 19.8 x 12.9 x 1.7 | 286g -
Publication Date: 02 Jun 2008
Publisher: Granta Books
Publication City/Country: London, United Kingdom
Language: English
Edition Number: 1
ISBN10: 1847080138
ISBN13: 9781847080134
Condition: Good
A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including very minor scuff marks along the edges, and minor creasing running down the left-hand side of the front cover, but no holes or tears. All pages are undamaged with no creasing or tearing, no pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text and no writing in margins. No missing pages.