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A.M. Homes (A. M. Homes / Homes, A. M.)
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The End of AliceISBN 0684827107 (0-684-82710-7)
Softcover, Scribner
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The End of Alice'Book summary:The narrator is Chappy, a pedophile who's been locked up in Sing Sing for 23 years for the rape and decapitation of 12-year-old Alice. The tale alternates between Chappy's own story (both outside and inside of prison), and letters he receives from a 19-year-old girl who knows of Alice's fate and wants to start playing with 12-year-old boys. The girl's letters disturb Chappy, bringing his memories vividly to the fore. In prose that is both lyrical and horrifyingly direct, A.M. "Amy" Homes takes us into the minds of the correspondents. Chappy is bright, analytical, and reminiscent of Nabokov in the way he talks about his "Lolita." But the sex is graphic and often bizarre, and the author's tone is chilly, so it's not a book to be picked up lightly. As Daphne Merkin writes in the New York Times, it's a "splashy, not particularly likable book whose best moments are quietly observed and whose underlying themes are more serious than prurient." [via]
In a Country of MothersISBN 0679742433 (0-679-74243-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Jackby A.M. HomesISBN 0140145672 (0-14-014567-2)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jack'Book summary:In Jack, A. M. Homes gives us a teenager who wants nothing more than to be normaleven if being normal means having divorced parents and a rather strange best friend. But when Jacks father takes him out in a rowboat on Lake Watchmayoyo and tells his son hes gay, nothing will ever be normal again. Out of Jacks struggle to redefine what family means, A. M. Homes crafts a novel of enormous humor, charm, and resonance, the most convincing, funny, and insightful novel about adolescence since The Catcher in the Rye. [via]
The Mistress's Daughterby A.M. HomesISBN 0143113313 (0-14-311331-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Music for Torchingby A.M. HomesISBN 0385600364 (0-385-60036-4)
Hardcover, Transworld Publishers Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Music for Torching'Book summary:As Quentin Crisp used to say, "Don't keep up with the Joneses! Drag them down to your level!" This could be the motto of the suburbanites in A M Homes's fourth novel, Music for Torching. Homes has a subtle eye and ear for suburban reality, but beware: she is no mere satirist of what James Joyce called the "muddle crass." Behind each neat, bright lawn, vile lives writhe in darkness. On the surface, Paul and Elaine are conventionally competitive middle-aged, middle-class people with banal yearnings for French doors and a new deck. They have two strapping boys. Their neighbours Pat and George are prodigies of efficient family life. But alone with Elaine, Pat drops the Stepford Wife mask and stages loveless orgies atop the throbbing washer, amid the Downy and Fantastik and Bon Ami. Meanwhile, Paul beds a local wife and a sinister mistress. The nice old man down the street downloads Internet child porn. Local kids join the Boy Scouts and bite off teachers' fingers.
It's all about lurid misery and false fronts: a minor character is named Claire Roth, surely alluding to the bitter relationship in Claire Bloom's Leaving a Doll's House and Philip Roth's I Married a Communist. Paul and Elaine first popped up in Homes' collection The Safety of Objects, as a couple having the happiest night of their lives smoking crack while the kids are away. Their happiest night here is when they tip the barbecue and burn their house halfway down. The story proceeds with a nightmare zombie logic from there, with a funny-scary ironic tone. "Paul notices that the colour of her eye shadow is Fiction, and her lipstick is called Sheer Fraud.... 'What happened to the dining-room table, Elaine? Why'd you chop it to pieces?' he wonders. 'The damage was irreparable,' his wife replies." Homes describes nice people doing not-so-nice deeds in luminous, precise prose far more adeptly than Bret Easton Ellis, as well as Joyce Carol Oates, and occasionally within range of John Updike. But Homes is really the evil spawn of Grace Metalious and Quentin Tarantino. --Tim Appelo [via]
The Safety of Objectsby A.M. HomesISBN 0060564512 (0-06-056451-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Safety of Objects'Book summary:The Safety of Objects kidnaps readers into a world of emotional science fiction where reality and the surreal mix in a disturbing vision of the way we live now. As skillful as it is scary, this is a breakthrough collection that gives new meaning to the words angst, anxiety, and anorexia. [via]
More editions of The Safety of Objects:
- Safety of Objects: ISBN 0140145664 (0-14-014566-4)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited - Safety of Objects: ISBN 0670836532 (0-670-83653-2)
Hardcover, Penguin Books, Limited - The Safety of Objects: ISBN 0679736298 (0-679-73629-8)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group - The Safety of Objects: ISBN 0393028844 (0-393-02884-4)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc - The Safety of Objects: ISBN 0060564512 (0-06-056451-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins
- Safety of Objects: ISBN 0140145664 (0-14-014566-4)
Things You Should Knowby A.M. HomesISBN 0060520132 (0-06-052013-2)
Softcover, Perennial
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This Book Will Save Your Lifeby A.M. HomesISBN 0143038745 (0-14-303874-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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