Amy Michael Homes Libri

On the day that Homes was born in 1961, she was given up for adoption. Thirty years later, out of the blue, Homes was contacted by a lawyer on behalf of her birth mother, and they began to correspond; her biological father contacted her soon after. These two individuals and their effect on the adult Homes are strange and unexpected.

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?

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.

Short listed for the Richard & Judy Book Club 2007. An uplifting story set in Los Angeles about one man's effort to bring himself back to life. Richard is a modern day everyman; a middle-aged divorcee trading stocks out of his home. He has done such a good job getting his life under control that he needs no one. His life has slowed almost to a standstill, until two incidents conspire to hurl him back into the world. One day he wakes up with a knotty cramp in his back, which rapidly develops into an all-consuming pain. At the same time a wide sinkhole appears outside his living room window, threatening the foundations of his house. A vivid novel about compassion and transformation, "This Book Will Save Your Life" reveals what can happen if you are willing to open up to the world around you. Since her debut in 1989, A.M. Homes has been among the boldest and most original voices of her generation, acclaimed for the psychological accuracy and unnerving emotional intensity of her storytelling. Her keen ability to explore how extraordinary the ordinary can be is at the heart of her touching and funny new novel, her first in six years.

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.