A.M. Homes

• Sep-1990
• / General Fiction
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In Jack, A. M. Homes gives us 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 tell...

• Nov-1991
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The breakthrough story collection that established A. M. Homes as one of the most daring writers of her generationOriginally published in 1990 to wide critical acclaim, this extraordinary first collection of stories by A. M. Homes confronts the real ...

• May-1993
• / Suspense
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No relationship is more charged than that between a psychotherapist and her patient -- unless it is the relationship between a mother and her daughter. This disturbing literary thriller explores what happens when the line between those relationships ...

• Mar-1996
• / General Fiction
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From the 2013 Orange Prize�"winning author of May We Be Forgiven.Only 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 dr...

• Apr-1996
• / General Fiction
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Appendix A is an elaboration on A.M. Homes' novel The End of Alice, and lays bare the process of creating a character and building a fiction. The End of Alice is a tale told by an aging sex offender drawn into a summer correspondence with a college s...

• Apr-2000
• / General Fiction
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As A.M. Homes's incendiary novel unfolds, the Kodacolor hues of the good life become nearly hallucinogenic.Laying bare th foundations of a marriage, flash frozen in the anxious entropy of a suburban subdivision, Paul and Elaine spin the quit terors o...

• Sep-2003
• / General Fiction
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“Eleven sharply original portraits of domestic life: the distance between family members, the minor wars between friends and lovers” (Publishers Weekly).In this stunningly original collection, A. M. Homes writes with terrifying compassion about t...

• Apr-2006
• / Suspense
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Richard Novak is a modern-day Everyman, a middle-aged divorce trading stocks out of his home in the surreal promised land of Los Angeles. Having done such a good job getting his life under control, Richard now needs no one -- except his trainer, nutr...

• Oct-2012
• / Literary
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A darkly comic novel of twenty-first-century domestic life and the possibility of personal transformation Harold Silver has spent a lifetime watching his younger brother, George, a taller, smarter, and more successful high-flying TV executive, acq...

• Jun-2018
• / General Fiction
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A razor-sharp story collection from a writer who is always "furiously good" (Zadie Smith, bestselling author of Swing Time). With her signature humor and compassion, A.M. Homes exposes the heart of an uneasy America in her new collection - explor...

• Jul-2018
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• Sep-2022
• / General Fiction
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“[A] much-anticipated, wickedly funny and sharply observed political satire…This novel of politics and family brings readers to the fault line of American politics.”  -- The New York Times Book Review “Beyond being good or bad, the chara...