Where the God of Love Hangs Out - Amy Bloom [86]
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
AMY BLOOM is the author of Away, a novel, and two collections of prizewinning stories: Come to Me and A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You. She teaches creative writing at Yale University, where she is a fellow of Calhoun College.
Amy Bloom is available for select readings and lectures. To inquire about a possible appearance, please visit www.rhspeakers.com call 212-572-2013.
Where the God of Love Hangs Out is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2010 by Amy Bloom
Reading group guide copyright © 2011 by Random House, Inc.
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Some of the stories in this work originally appeared in the following: “Compassion and Mercy” in Granta, Summer, 2009; “By-And-By” in Ms., Summer, 2004; “Between Here and Here” in Narrative, December, 2009; “Your Borders, Your Rivers, Your Tiny Villages” in Ploughshares, Fall, 2002; “The Old Impossible” in Ploughshares, Fall, 2006; “I Love to See You Coming, I Hate to See You Go” in Tin House, Spring, 2004; and “Permafrost” in Yale Review, January, 2010.
Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint previously published material:
HarperCollins Publishers and Pan Macmillan, London: “Sleepwalking” from Come to Me by Amy Bloom, copyright © 1993 by Amy Bloom. Rights in the United Kingdom are controlled by Pan Macmillan, London. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers and Pan Macmillan, London.
Jane Hirshfield: “When Your Life Looks Back” and “Opening the Hands Between Here and Here” by Jane Hirshfield, copyright © 2008 by Jane Hirshfield. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission of the author.
Random House, Inc., and Pan Macmillan, London: “Night Vision” and “Light into Dark” from A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You by Amy Bloom, copyright © 2000 by Amy Bloom. Rights in the United Kingdom are controlled by Pan Macmillan, London. Reprinted by permission of Random House, Inc.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Bloom, Amy Where the god of love hangs out: fiction / Amy Bloom.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-1-58836-987-1
I. Title.
PS3552.L6378W47 2009
813′.54—dc22 2009023722
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Cover painting: Sherrie Wolf, Red and Yellow Cherries After Constable (Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, Oregon)
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