A.M. Homes delves into the intricate complexities of the human psyche and interpersonal relationships, often exploring themes of identity, familial bonds, and the search for meaning. Her style is marked by a piercing insight into human behavior and a unique ability to examine the darker facets of existence with unexpected empathy. The author probes how our roots shape us and how we navigate questions of adoption and belonging. Her works serve as literary investigations into the human condition, challenging readers to reflect.
In this stunningly original collection, A. M. Homes writes with terrifying compassion about the things that matter most. Homes's distinctive narrative illuminates our dreams and desires, our memories and losses, and demonstrates how extraordinary the ordinary can be. With Uncanny emotional accuracy, wit, and empathy, Homes takes us places we recognize but would rather not go alone.
Bored with their lives and tired of their marriage, Paul and Elaine turn a family barbecue into a bonfire and watch their dreams go up in smoke. But will burning down their house solve all their problems?
Jack is a teenager who wants nothing more than to be normal - even if being normal means having divorced parents and a rather strange best friend. But when Jack's father takes him out in a rowboat on Lake Watchmayoyo and tells his son that he's gay, nothing will ever be normal again.
Feeling overshadowed by his more-successful younger brother, Harold is shocked by his brother's violent act that irrevocably changes their lives, placing Harold in the role of father figure to his brother's adolescent children and caregiver to his aging parents.
For Claire Roth, an established psychotherapist with an adoring husband and children, the lines between friendship and family, between love and compulsion, begin to lose their focus when she meets a new patient.
The Big Guy loves his family, money and democracy. Undone by the results of the 2008 Presidential election, he taps a group of like-minded men to reclaim their version of America. As they build a scheme to disturb and disrupt, the Big Guy also faces turbulence within his family and must take responsibility for his past actions. For his wife and daughter are having their own awakenings self-denying Charlotte enters rehab, and eighteen year old Megan, who has voted for the first time, explores a political future that deviates from her fathers ideology, while delving into deeply buried family secrets.Dark, funny and prescient, The
From the 2013 Orange Prize-winning author of May We Be ForgivenOnly a work of such searing, meticulously controlled brilliance could provoke such a wide range of visceral responses. Here is the incredible story of an imprisoned pedophile who is drawn into an erotically charged correspondence with a nineteen-year-old suburban coed. As the two reveal—and revel in—their obsessive desires, Homes creates in The End of Alice a novel that is part romance, part horror story, at once unnerving and seductive.
Richard is a middle-aged divorcee trading stock out of his home in Los Angeles. He has done such a good job getting his life under control that he needs no one, until two incidents conspire to hurl him back into the world.
The Safety of Objects is A.M. Homes' debut collection of short stories, showcasing her trademark humor, perversion, and extraordinary storytelling.
A stunning new collection of short stories from the winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction.
Was empfindet man, wenn man im Alter von einunddreißig Jahren erfährt, dass man nicht die leibliche Tochter seiner Eltern, sondern ein Adoptivkind ist? A. M. Homes schildert hier auf eindringliche Weise ihre eigene Lebensgeschichte als emotionale Spurensuche. Eine höchst authentische und brillante Antwort auf Fragen, die wir uns alle stellen: Wer bin ich- und wie bin ich zu dem geworden, was ich bin?
Come recita la testata del sito Web, "Timothy McSweeney è un enigma avvolto in un mistero avvolto nella pancetta". Ma chi era davvero Timothy McSweeney? Una possibile risposta si trova nel sesto numero, dove si racconta di un uomo che scriveva lettere al futuro fondatore della rivista quando questi era ancora bambino vicino a Chicago. Le lettere, con una calligrafia strana e bella, erano indirizzate anche alla madre, insistendo su un legame con la famiglia McSweeney. La spiegazione si sviluppa ulteriormente, ma resta da chiedersi quanto ci sia di vero e quanto di immaginario. La rivista è nata a San Francisco nel 1998 grazie a Dave Eggers, rivoluzionando il panorama letterario e attirando autori celebri come Stephen King, Joyce Carol Oates, David Foster Wallace e molti altri. In questa antologia, abbiamo raccolto i contributi di alcune delle intrepide scrittrici che hanno reso la rivista un luogo affascinante. Da Zadie Smith a Heidi Julavits, da Lydia Davis a A.M. Homes, fino a Susan Minot e Sheila Heti, troverete una varietà di storie brevi, memorie personali, saggi e altro ancora. Queste letture non solo vi offriranno soddisfazione e divertimento, ma vi trasformeranno in lettori incredibilmente cool. E oggi, scusateci se è poco.
A.M. Homes es financiada por la revista National Geographic para que vaya a cualquier lugar del mundo, con la condición que escriba un libro sobre aquel lugar. Elige Los Ángeles, California, Estados Unidos.
Un nuovo libro di A.M. Homes è sempre un evento. Soprattutto se poi si tratta di racconti, una formula narrativa che le è particolarmente congeniale. Con il suo stile solo in apparenza cinico e spregiudicato, con il suo umorismo graffiante che cela uno sguardo pieno di compassione e tenerezza, la scrittrice americana torna a indagare i rapporti di coppia e le dinamiche famigliari con dodici storie che portano in primo piano il cuore profondo dell’America del secondo millennio. A volte fulminanti nella loro brevità, a volte più distese, tutte hanno in comune la capacità di cogliere l’essenza di un rapporto, l’anima di un personaggio, le crude dinamiche di un ambiente sociale. Che si tratti di un artificiere in missione in Afghanistan o delle occulte paure di una famiglia di Los Angeles, di due vecchi amici che si ritrovano a una conferenza sul genocidio o di vincere alla lotteria una candidatura alla presidenza, le storie di Homes spiazzano e divertono, mordono e commuovono, penetrano sotto la superficie restando a lungo nei nostri pensieri, a interrogarci e a stupirci per l’infinita varietà e meraviglia del genere umano.
