Please visit https://fashabooks.com/aff/fashabooks/1523 to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Lucky Us Subtitle: A Novel Author: Amy Bloom Narrator: Alicyn Packard Format: Unabridged Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins Language: English Release date: 07-29-14 Publisher: Random House Audio Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 141 votes Genres: Fiction, Historical Publisher's Summary: "My fathers 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. Iriss 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 Brooklyns beauty parlors to Londons West End, a group of unforgettable people love, lie, cheat, and survive in this story of our fragile, absurd, heroic species. Critic Reviews: "Lucky Us indeed - another Amy Bloom book. And, if its possible, even more powerful and affecting than her last novel, Away. This is a poignant book that manages to be funny, an unflinching portrait that manages to be tender, a tough story that manages to also have jazz and grace. Bloom is a great writer who keeps stepping into new territory, entirely unafraid. She is one of Americas unique and most gifted literary voices." (Colum McCann) "Lucky Us is a remarkable accomplishment. One waits a long time for a novel of this scope and dimension, replete with surgically drawn characters, a mix of comedy and tragedy that borders on the miraculous, and sentences that should be in a sentence museum. Amy Bloom is a treasure." (Michael Cunningham)
