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    A Study Guide for Amy Bloom's "Silver Water"
    A Study Guide for Amy Bloom's "Silver Water"
    A Study Guide for Amy Bloom's "Silver Water"
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    A Study Guide for Amy Bloom's "Silver Water"

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    A Study Guide for Amy Bloom's "Silver Water," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateJun 27, 2016
    ISBN9781535833165
    A Study Guide for Amy Bloom's "Silver Water"

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      A Study Guide for Amy Bloom's "Silver Water" - Gale

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      Silver Water

      Amy Bloom

      1991

      Introduction

      Amy Bloom’s first collection of short stories, Come to Me,brought her immediate acclaim. Critics lauded her skill in drawing her characters, many of whom were, as Jeanne Schinto dubbed them in Belles Letters,psychological anomalies. Bloom evocatively portrays these disturbed individuals amidst backgrounds rich with love, familial relationships, and essential humanity.

      Silver Water, one of the stories in the collection, was chosen for inclusion in 1992’s Best American Short Stories. It tells about a teenager, Rose, who has a psychotic break. After ten years of fighting schizophrenia, Rose kills herself. Her struggle with the illness, the unspeakable anguish it brings to her entire family, and her eventual suicide are all hauntingly brought forth through the understated voice of Violet, who narrates her older sister’s life with precise, alive words and luminous imagery. Victoria Radin wrote of the collection in the New Statesman and Society,Bloom’s stories are suffused with the sensual pleasures of colour, sound, scent, and love. Silver Water radiates with such touches, but its deeper power draws from Bloom’s creation of an immensely painful situation and the love that attempts to conquer it, and yet finally has no choice but to submit to

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