A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You

author
Amy Bloom

lets be clear
I love Amy Bloom: her fiction is incredible. The visceral mastery she has over happenings of the heart is unparalleled. Her short stories are in league of their own, and her first (and as of yet, only) foray into long-form fiction, leaves nothing to be desired. The bottom line is, if you don't like her, chances are, I don't like you.

what really matters
Her ability to capture our actualy lives—it's kind of creepy. Amy Bloom's deft and penetrating stories make you wonder if she's got one survelliance camera set up to record the happenings of your life and another somehow buried deep in the recesses of your mind, recording your responses and feelings. Her stories are the stuff our lives are made out of and reading them makes you ache accordingly. Sensuous, intimate, heartbreaking, and spare, A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You reminds you just how gorgeous life really is.

some of the hype
“Exotic intimacies color [these] sharply wrought stories…. Ms. Bloom writes warmly and astutely, with arresting precision.”
–The New York Times

“With consummate skill and good grace, Bloom shows how people are capable of almost anything, and why.”
–San Francisco Chronicle

"Amy Bloom gets more meaning into individual sentences than most authors manage in whole books."
—The New Yorker

"Amy Bloom writes about love and desire with more visceral power than anyone I know."
— Dorothy Allison

"The highest compliment i can pay a writer is to say that her work is Chekhovian - which is to say that its fine, fierce intelligence is matched by its compassion."
— Rosellen Brown

"Amy Bloom writes about love in prose as pure and polished as river-washed stone. And such is her wisdom that, in reading about a woman who has done nothing I ever did, I felt I was reading about myself."
— Phyllis Rose

"Amy Bloom is possessed of great subtlety and rock-solid integrity. Her stories crackle with subvert revelation. She is compassionate writer who, more important, loves the world too much to sentamentalize it."
— Michael Cunningham

some other things this author has written
Come to Me
Love Invents Us
Normal