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A. M. HOMES
is the author of the novels
Music for Torching, The End of Alice, In a Country of Mothers, Jack, and a collection of stories, The Safety of Objects
. Among her many awards are Guggenheim and NEA Fellowships. Homes is a contributing editor to
Vanity Fair
and has published fiction and essays in
The New Yorker, Granta, McSweeney's, Art Forum
, and the
New York Times
. She lives in New York City.
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RAISE
FOR
Things You Should Know
“Here Homes approaches the art of the great absurdists. Strangeness becomes a revealing back entrance into the human condition of our day.”
âR
ICHARD
E
DER
, New York Times Book Review
“A lavishly imaginative story collectionâ¦with high drama and killer comic dialogueâ¦. Twelve years after the release of
The Safety of Objects,
Homes' return to short fiction is a gift.”
â
Entertainment Weekly
“Perversely hilarious yet also poignant, this collection finds Homes at her creepiest, but most chilling is how much one begins to identify with her characters' sense of alienation.”
â
Vogue
“As in her previous books (
Music for Torching, The Safety of Objects
), Homes is interested in the ways families fail and the ways our expectations of some of life's most ineluctable aspectsâfamily, homeâdoom us to feelings of incompleteness.”
âJ
ENNIE
Y
ABROFF
,
San Francisco Chronicle
“In several of the stories, Homes creates characters whose conflicts are believable and affecting, whose progress toward limited resolution engages our attention, whose emotions intensify as the story progresses, and who do not live in airless self-absorption but have some connection to the worldâ¦. These tales are realistic and psychologically astute.”
âE
DITH
P
ERLMAN
,
Boston Globe
RAISE FOR
A. M. HOMES
“A. M. Homes never plays it safe and it begins to look as if she can do almost anything.”
âM
ICHAEL
C
UNNINGHAM
“A. M. Homes is certainly among the most important young writers working now, and her new book is dazzling.”
âR
OBERT
S
TONE
“Homes is confident and consistent in her odd departures from life as we know it, sustaining credibility by getting details right. A fully engaged imagination [is] at workâand at play.”
âA
MY
H
EMPEL
,
Los Angeles Times Book Review
LSO BY
A. M. H
OMES
Music for Torching
The End of Alice
In a Country of Mothers
Jack
Appendix A: An Elaboration on the Novel “The End of Alice”
THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW
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EPub Edition MAY 2007 ISBN: 9780061865718
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