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by: Amy Bloom  List Price: $34.95 Amazon.com's Price: $23.07 You Save: $11.88 (34%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: Audio CDDewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9781598875218 Edition: Unabridged Format: Audiobook, Unabridged ISBN: 1598875213 Label: HighBridge Company Manufacturer: HighBridge Company Number Of Items: 7 Publication Date: August 09, 2007 Publisher: HighBridge Company Studio: HighBridge Company Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: 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 cafĂ© 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. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Chicken Soup Potboiler I began reading this book with high hopes but somewhere after Lillian decides to leave the Yiddish theater and to return to Siberia, I began to sense that this adventure story was a hoax. I followed Lillian through each separate adventure feeling as if I were watching a serialized potboiler. I stopped believing in the character and felt the author plodding along, putting her main character into one absurd situation after another, leaning heavily on sex and violence to keep the narrative moving. I ... Read More Rating:  - Away by Amy Bloom 4 - 4.5 StarsWhere to begin... One day, when I grow up, I want to be as strong-willed as Lillian, the main character. To be driven by such a deep love and will to travel in the 1920s across America, through Alaska, to find your way home... Lillian is a young immigrant who moves to America (NYC, from Russia, to find a better life and make a new start after her family brutally murdered. During this horrible time in her life, she begs her daughter to hide. After the tragedy she can not find her ... Read More Rating: - There's More to Every Story"Everyone has two memories. The one you can tell and the one that is stuck to the underside of that, the dark, tarry smear of what happened." I pulled this quote out of the book because it really embodied the soul of Lillian's story. It's as though we're skating on a frozen lake -- we see Lillian and the other characters as they move through the pages of the story and we hear some of their thoughts. The emotional turmoil and the thoughts too dark or tragic to be voiced, however, are left ... Read More Rating:  - vulgar and disgustingI was very disgusted with this book. It was the first book I read by Amy Bloom and it will be the last. My book club picked this book as our book for November from a Book club companion guide we receive from Random House readers circle. Everything they had to say about the book made it seem like a good choice, but one thing you don't know about a book until you start to read it is the language, tone, and sexuality of the book. I think this book was written using very vulgar language and describing ... Read More Rating:  - READ THIS BOOK!I LOVED this book. I picked it up at the airport before a long flight because...wait for it...I liked the cover. I was transported. It is unlike any book I have ever read, and I've read a few. It was spare and neat, and yet at the same time, beautifully and heartbreakingly descriptive. I loved that every time you thought you had it figured out, and knew what was going to happen next, you were surprised. It was a revelation! 
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