Days of Awe by Am Homes
With dark humor and sharp dialogue, Homes plumbs the depths of everyday American anxieties. --Time 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 - exploring our attachments to each other through characters who aren't quite who they hoped to become, though there is no one else they can be. In A Prize for Every Player, a man is nominated to run for president by the customers of a big box store, while he and his family do their weekly shopping. At a conference on genocide(s) in the title story, old friends rediscover themselves and one another - finding spiritual and physical comfort in ancient traditions. And in Hello Everybody and She Got Away, Homes revisits a Los Angeles family obsessed with the surfaces and frightened of what lives below. In the nearly three decades since her seminal debut collection The Safety of Objects, Homes has been celebrated by readers and critics alike as one of our boldest and most original writers, acclaimed for her psychological accuracy and satire so close to the truth it's terrifying (Ali Smith). Her first book since the Women's Prize-winning May We Be Forgiven, Days of Awe is a major new addition to her body of visionary, fearless, outrageously funny work.A.M. Homes is the author of The Mistress's Daughter, as well as the novels This Book Will Save Your Life, Music for Torching, The End of Alice, In a Land of Mothers, and Jack, as well as the story collections Days of Awe, The Safety of Objects, and Things You Should Know. She currently resides in New York City.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780143133261 |
| ISBN 10 | 0143133268 |
| Title | Days of Awe |
| Author | Am Homes |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Year published | 2019-06-18 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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