This Book Will Save Your Life by A M Homes
Richard Novak is a middle-aged divorce trading stocks out of his Los Angeles home. He is functionally dead and doesn't even notice, until an attack of intense pain lands him in the emergency room and an expanding sinkhole opens outside of his house. On his way home from the hospital he meets a weeping housewife in the supermarket, helps save a horse that has fallen into the sinkhole, rescues a woman from the trunk of her kidnapper's car, and, after the sinkhole claims his house, befriends a reluctant counterculture icon. In the end, Richard is brought back in touch with his family--aging parents, brilliant brother, beloved ex-wife, and finally, before the story's breathtaking finale, his estranged son Ben.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 | 9780670034932 |
| ISBN 10 | 0670034932 |
| Title | This Book Will Save Your Life |
| Author | A M Homes |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Viking Books |
| Year published | 2006-04-20 |
| Number of pages | 384 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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