- Paperback: 224 pages
- Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press (Mar 1 2005)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1551521822
- ISBN-13: 978-1551521824
- Product Dimensions: 20.4 x 15.2 x 1.6 cm
- Shipping Weight: 249 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,240,640 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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In Bloodknots, Ami Sands Brodoff weaves through betrayal, loss, and triumph of normal people facing extraordinary challenges in prose rich and full of texture. Bloodknots is a marvellous collection peopled by unforgettable characters.
—Nalini Warriar (Nalini Warriar 20050601)
Bloodknots is a truly singular and remarkable book of stories. With consummate skill, Ami Sands Brodoff sets forth a domestic terrain marked by the fantastical —a landscape of desertions, treacheries, and devotions gone wrong, richly populated by a wildly imagined cast. Lyrical and disturbing, this is the work of a writer of unmistakable talent.
—Joan Silber (Joan Silber )
Brodoff is a genius at creating characters who are wholly original, yet strangely familiar.... And precisely because of their imperfections, they feel entirely real. Like the people in Pedro Almodovar's films, Brodoff's characters are so odd they seem true to life.
—Montreal Review (Montreal Review )
... the force of Bloodknots lies not in Brodoff's frequent bouts of description, but in her ability to cobble character through flashback and dialogue. In these twelve ambitious stories, Brodoff probes and prods our most instinctive attractions and connections. The bloodknots of the title come in all types and textures: they are the ties that bind family members; the body and the mind's perennial tangling and unravelling; and the viscera that accompany birth, sex, and death.... Stories rife with episodes of meaningful recollection ... gracefully accomplished ... the past revealed ... in remnants woven delicately and deftly into the narrative of women's everyday lives.
—Quill & Quire (Quill & Quire )
A thoughtful writer who has insights to convey. Montreal writer Ami Sands Brodoff is interested in the inescapable emotional ties that bind families, friends, and lovers. She explores the fundamental truism that relationships are as necesssary as they are paradoxical. They pull us in opposite directions, grounding as much as restricting. Memorable stories are like effective knots—simple, elegant, economical and tight.
—The Montreal Gazette (Montreal Gazette )
—Nalini Warriar (Nalini Warriar 20050601)
Bloodknots is a truly singular and remarkable book of stories. With consummate skill, Ami Sands Brodoff sets forth a domestic terrain marked by the fantastical —a landscape of desertions, treacheries, and devotions gone wrong, richly populated by a wildly imagined cast. Lyrical and disturbing, this is the work of a writer of unmistakable talent.
—Joan Silber (Joan Silber )
Brodoff is a genius at creating characters who are wholly original, yet strangely familiar.... And precisely because of their imperfections, they feel entirely real. Like the people in Pedro Almodovar's films, Brodoff's characters are so odd they seem true to life.
—Montreal Review (Montreal Review )
... the force of Bloodknots lies not in Brodoff's frequent bouts of description, but in her ability to cobble character through flashback and dialogue. In these twelve ambitious stories, Brodoff probes and prods our most instinctive attractions and connections. The bloodknots of the title come in all types and textures: they are the ties that bind family members; the body and the mind's perennial tangling and unravelling; and the viscera that accompany birth, sex, and death.... Stories rife with episodes of meaningful recollection ... gracefully accomplished ... the past revealed ... in remnants woven delicately and deftly into the narrative of women's everyday lives.
—Quill & Quire (Quill & Quire )
A thoughtful writer who has insights to convey. Montreal writer Ami Sands Brodoff is interested in the inescapable emotional ties that bind families, friends, and lovers. She explores the fundamental truism that relationships are as necesssary as they are paradoxical. They pull us in opposite directions, grounding as much as restricting. Memorable stories are like effective knots—simple, elegant, economical and tight.
—The Montreal Gazette (Montreal Gazette )
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The stories in Bloodknots, ferocious and powerful, are about family, both present and absent: about the threads that bind people together and the ones that unravel without warning.
Stubbornly original, fiercely honest, and imbued with a sensibility that speaks to the author's Jewish heritage, Ami Sands Brodoff writes with authority, passion, and razor-sharp detail about identity and the longing for a connection in the face of loss, abandonment, and exclusion. Her characters are giants and orphans, society's marginalized who struggle to free themselves from lives spent hiding in shadows. They walk the tightrope of survival, balancing between remembering and forgetting.
Written close to the senses, Bloodknots penetrates to the core.
(arsenalpulp.com 20050501)
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This review is from: Bloodknots (Paperback)
Ami Sands Brodoff has a deeply intelligent eye for character, realtionships, and for the subterranean bits of life that habitually go unnoticed or unremarked upon. And so I read these stories with a continuously renewed sense of recognition: ah yes, these are surprisingly familiar little worlds, but ones that I could not have found words for had I tried to. Thank goodness for this author's humane discipline and economy: she makes her readers feel very clever indeed.
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An Engrossing, Fictional World Of Short Stories,
By SamBam514 (Montreal, Quebec Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Bloodknots (Paperback)
With literary prowess, Ami Sands Brodoff weaves together a world of unsurpassed complications, that everyone can emphasize with. A must read of the summer.
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Touching,
By A Customer
This review is from: Bloodknots (Paperback)
The stories in this book are highly literate but accessible. They are touching and surprising, and many leave you wondering and caring about what will become of the characters. A great discovery.
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