![]() ![]() Hill, whom she helps take care of after school through the offices of a black church that she's got involved with. ![]() Liz also takes to stealing-especially from a feisty, loving old lady named Mrs. In a series of loosely connected stories, she lives these out, first modeling mink coats in her underwear in the darkened shop of the town furrier, who plies her with Belgian chocolates, and later (after her emotionally distant parents announce a divorce) having a prolonged, reluctant affair with adoring high-school English teacher Max. From the age of ten, when we first meet Elizabeth Taube, a schoolgirl growing up in suburban Long Island in the '60s, she's an oddly willing object of adult men's sexual fantasies. Bloom, a psychoanalyst and the author of the highly-praised story collection Come to Me (1993), offers a first novel that is at once tamer and more troubling than her earlier book, tracking an ordinary young woman's neurotic sexual development and fate. ![]()
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