Lucky Us
  • Published:
    Aug-2014 (Hardcover)
    Jul-2015 (Paperback)
  • Formats:
    Print / eBook / Audio
  • Main Genre:
    Historical
  • Pages:
    272
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“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.
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    •  
    • Jul-2015
    • Random House
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0812978943
    • ISBN13: 9780812978940
    •  
    • Jun-2015
    • Granta Books (UK)
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 1847089399
    • ISBN13: 9781847089397
    • First Edition
    • Aug-2014
    • Random House
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 1400067243
    • ISBN13: 9781400067244
    •  
    • Aug-2014
    • Random House
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 0812996003
    • ISBN13: 9780812996005
    •  
    • Aug-2014
    • Random House
    • eBook (Kindle)
    •  
    • Jul-2014
    • Random House Audio
    • Audible
    •  
    • Aug-2014
    • Random House Audio
    • Audio CD
    • ISBN: 0804191344
    • ISBN13: 9780804191340
    •  
    • Aug-2014
    • Random House
    • Playaway
    • ISBN: 1467684244
    • ISBN13: 9781467684248
    • Library Binding
    •  
    • Nov-2014
    • Center Point
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 1628993251
    • ISBN13: 9781628993257
    • Large Print
    • Library Binding



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