Saturday, August 13, 2005

forty-four/fifty-two

A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You is a collection of short stories by Amy Bloom. Every story is as perfectly crafted as that title. Even the cover is perfect.

The stories are all about ordinary people doing semi-strange things, but the writing is so beautiful that even the most everyday details seem almost magical. The most horrible things people do in her stories seem strangely pretty when she writes about them.

I borrowed this one from the library -- I'm definitely adding it to my collection, though. And I'll be hunting down anything else by Bloom as well.

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