title: Amazons: A Love Story
author: Ellen Levy
description: <b><span>"One of the best new nonfiction writers in the country."</span></b><br /> <span>--Bill Roorbach, author of <i>Temple Stream: A Rural Odyssey</i></span><br /><br /><span></span><b><span>"Levy is a genuine talent, a unique and powerful voice, with a gift for the sort of close and subtle observation of the world and its people that characterizes great literature."</span></b> <span>-- Lee Martin, author of <i>The Bright Forever </i>and <i>Break the Skin</i></span><br /> <span></span><br /><span></span><br /><br /><span>"<b>Amazons is a book to admire</b> not least for its remarkable, betimes terrifying insight into the crooked creature we are--a book rendered with the passion and gifts of a poet."</span><br /> <span>--Lee K. Abbott, author of <i>All Things, All at Once: New and Selected Stories</i></span><br /><br /><span>"...<b>Levy's intelligent probing and artful sentence-making transform this work from one woman's story into a relentless examination of more universal losses--both personal and environmental--and of the elusive hope that saving imperiled places might also constitute saving ourselves.</b>"</span><br /> <span>--Barbara Hurd, author of <i>Stirring the Mud</i></span><br /><br />"...<b>a highly unusual, poignant coming-of-age saga</b> by a half-Jewish writer <b>nearly off the scale in candor and braininess</b>...[Levy is] a winner as a thinker and a wordsmith." --JewishJournal.com
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