Love Invents Us by Amy Bloom (Paperback, 1998)

Love Invents Us by Amy Bloom. Paperback first edition published by Picador in 1998. \n\n\u2018Some people are your family, no matter when you find them, and some people are not, even if you are laid, still wet and crumpled, in their arms.\u2019\nElizabeth Taube, shy, chubby, isolated from parents who are as remote as planets, has to take love where she finds it: at the sweet counter in Frank\u2019s Five and Dime; in the mirror at Furs by Klein, where Mr Klein watches as she tries on his coats; and in the longing gaze of Max Stone, her married English teacher.\nThen love captures her completely in the person of Huddie Lester. It takes Elizabeth, Huddie and the others whose lives intertwine with theirs into places where they never expected to be and into unknown parts of themselves.\nVery good general condition. Pages yellowed but clean \nand tightly bound. Very little creasing or wear to the covers or spine. \n\nThanks for looking. If you decide to b.