Publication Date: July 29,2014
Publisher: Random House
Available in: Print, Ebook, and Audio
Available at: Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Books a Million
With an attention getting book cover and the first lines being "My father's wife died. My mother said we should drive down to his place and see what might be in it for us." Amy Bloom has attracted readers to enter to world of Eva Logan. But that's all she did. Though the book cover, at least for me, had nothing to do with the novel itself, it does get one wondering on what's inside. Mind you I am not saying that this novel is BAD I am saying that it doesn't live up to the hipe of the first two lines or the book cover.
Eva's life before the age of twelve was one in which she had no complaints, but that changed when her mother dropped her on Eva's father's door step and drove off, never to return again. Eva is astonished to find out that her father is actually a wealthy, college professor with a sixteen year old daughter. Though her father won't even acknowledge that she is his own daughter Eva becomes know to all as his niece. With all this negativity in her life the only person with whom she is treated nicely is her own half sister, Iris. After helping Iris with practicing to win competitions, Eva and Iris run to Hollywood on the money from the competitions.
This is only the beginning, the drama piles up in the novel, but Amy Bloom does a wonderful job describing her scenes and the characters experiences that it doesn't read like a contemporary drama. Narrated by Eva Logan herself, Ms. Bloom interrupts the narrative with letters from Iris and another character. Thus, the reader is able to follow these other characters in their paralleled lives without derailing the main narrative.
This novel shows that family is not just limited to the relatives you have but the people who love you too. Though life can through a lot of troubles your way all you have to do is dust yourself off, move forward and triumphs will come your way.
Book Synopsis:
"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.
""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.
No comments:
Post a Comment