Lucky Us

"NEW YORK TIMES "BESTSELLER
""My father's wife died. My mother said we should drive down to his place and see what might be in it for us.""
So begins this remarkable novel by Amy Bloom, whose critically acclaimed "Away" was called "a literary triumph" ("The New York Times"). "Lucky Us" is a [...]
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"NEW YORK TIMES "BESTSELLER
""My father's wife died. My mother said we should drive down to his place and see what might be in it for us.""
So begins this remarkable novel by Amy Bloom, whose critically acclaimed "Away" was called "a literary triumph" ("The New York Times"). "Lucky Us" is a brilliantly written, deeply moving, fantastically funny novel of love, heartbreak, and luck.
Disappointed by their families, Iris, the hopeful star and Eva the sidekick, journey through 1940s America in search of fame and fortune. Iris's ambitions take the pair across the America of Reinvention in a stolen station wagon, from small-town Ohio to an unexpected and sensuous Hollywood, and to the jazz clubs and golden mansions of Long Island.
With their friends in high and low places, Iris and Eva stumble and shine though a landscape of big dreams, scandals, betrayals, and war. Filled with gorgeous writing, memorable characters, and surprising events, "Lucky Us" is a thrilling and resonant novel about success and failure, good luck and bad, the creation of a family, and the pleasures and inevitable perils of family life, conventional and otherwise. From Brooklyn's beauty parlors to London's West End, a group of unforgettable people love, lie, cheat and survive in this story of our fragile, absurd, heroic species.
Praise for "Lucky Us"
"These two things about Amy Bloom's surprise-filled "Lucky Us" are indisputable: It opens with a terrific hook and closes with an image of exquisite resolution. . . . She writes sharp, sparsely beautiful scenes that excitingly defy expectation, and part of the pleasure of reading her is simply keeping up with her. You won't know where "Lucky Us" is headed until, suddenly, it's there. . . . It's] a short, vibrant book about all kinds of people creating all kinds of serial, improvisatory lives. Changes occur because characters fall in and out of love, trouble and, yes, luck. And even when the bad luck is devastating, they dust themselves off and inventively move on."--Janet Maslin, "The New York Times"
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"A tasty summer read that will leave you smiling . . . "Lucky Us" is about Bloom's uncanny ability to conjure the tone of the war years--broken hearts held together by lipstick, wisecracks and the enduring love of sisters, come what may."--"USA Today"
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"A fireworks display of delightful, if sometimes confounding, surprises . . . wildly twisting . . . spryly spontaneous."--"The Wall Street Journal"
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" Bloom] writes with such spare, efficient grace. . . . Her words are carefully chosen to cut clean and deep. . . . Even her] casual asides stack up, like pearls strung on a wire. . . . Taken together, they make this odd, precocious girl's story feel as big and small and strangely marvelous as life itself. Grade] A-"--"Entertainment Weekly"
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" A] kaleidoscopic take on life in the tumultuous '40s . . . In an exquisitely imagined novel, Amy Bloom wows. . . . "Lucky Us" is a tale of a family weathering tragedies intimate and global."--"O: The Oprah Magazine "
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"Marvelous picaresque entertainment . . . To read Bloom's fiction is to experience afresh how life is ruled by chance and composed of spare parts that are purposed and repurposed in uncanny ways--it's a festival of joy and terror and lust and amazement that resolves itself here, warts and all, in a kind of crystalline Mozartean clarity of vision."--"Elle"