A. M Homes
Author
Publisher
Rob Weisbach Books
Pub. Date
©1999.
Language
English
Description
A novel on a middle-class suburb that produces a school shooting. The protagonists are bored parents, comfortably off and looking for kicks. They find them in violence, drugs, adultery, and in one case burning their house and parking the children with neighbors.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
In this stunningly original collection, A. M. Homes writes with terrifying compassion about the things that matter most. Homes's distinctive narrative illuminates our dreams and desires, our memories and losses, and demonstrates how extraordinary the ordinary can be. With uncanny emotional accuracy, wit, and empathy, Homes takes us places we recognize but would rather not go alone.
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Feeling overshadowed by his more-successful younger brother, Harold is shocked by his brother's violent act that irrevocably changes their lives, placing Harold in the role of father figure to his brother's adolescent children and caregiver to his aging parents.
5) Days of awe
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
A teenage vamp enters into a bizarre correspondence with a jailed killer. He writes her how he raped and murdered a girl she knew, she describes how she scores, seducing a much younger boy along with his father. A study of perversion. By the author of A Country of Mothers.
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
The "fierce and eloquent" (New York Times) memoir from A.M Homes, award-winning author of May We Be Forgiven and the forthcoming novel The Unfolding
The acclaimed writer A. M. Homes was given up for adoption before she was born. Her biological mother was a twenty-two-year-old single woman who was having an affair with a much older married man with a family of his own. The Mistress's Daughter is the ruthlessly...
The acclaimed writer A. M. Homes was given up for adoption before she was born. Her biological mother was a twenty-two-year-old single woman who was having an affair with a much older married man with a family of his own. The Mistress's Daughter is the ruthlessly...
Author
Publisher
Norton
Pub. Date
[1990]
Language
English
Description
The Safety of Objects is a breakthrough collection of stories that carries readers into a world of emotional sf where everyone, regardless of age, plays hide-&-seek & no one is really safe. Not the boy abducted by a hard-to-please kidnapper; not the child kept "alive" by a battery of machines; not the parents spiraling into sloth & substance abuse after packing off the kids to grandmother's house; not the teenager vigorously seduced by his sister's...
10) The unfolding
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Big Guy loves his family, money and country. Undone by the results of the 2008 presidential election, he taps a group of like-minded men to reclaim their version of the American Dream. As they build a scheme to disturb and disrupt, the Big Guy also faces turbulence within his family. His wife, Charlotte, grieves a life not lived, while his 18-year-old daughter, Meghan, begins to realize that her favorite subject-history-is not exactly what her...
Publisher
Plume
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Everything an aspiring memoirist needs to know, in one readable volume, a follow-up to the acclaimed writers' handbook Why We Write For the many amateurs and professionals who write about themselves--bloggers, journal-keepers, aspiring essayists, and memoirists--this book offers inspiration, encouragement, and pithy, practical advice. Twenty of America's bestselling memoirists share their innermost thoughts and hard-earned tips with veteran author...
Author
Publisher
Gregory R. Miller & Company
Pub. Date
20230725
Language
English
Description
"For nearly five decades, New York based artist Rob Wynne (born 1948) has incorporated fragments of language drawn from conversation, literature and popular culture to create visually and materially seductive works that employ text as object or image. Across sculpture, installation, collage and relief, Wynne's work appropriates words and images from a broad array of historical figures and personal remembrances. Embroidered photographs of 18th-century...
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Once an up-and-coming singer/songwriter, Paul Gold now lies in a coma. He is attentively nursed by his mother Esther, who dotes on her son to the point that her husband and daughter, Julie, feel very left out. Meanwhile, Jim Train is a workaholic lawyer who is closer to his tortes than to his spouse Susan. Their son Jake has taken a morbid fascination with his sister's baby doll. At the same time, Paul's former lover Annette Jennings is trying to...
16) Jack
Publisher
Showtime Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
"Jack is already struggling with adolescence when he realizes his parents are getting a divorce. To make matters even worse, he finds out that his dad is gay. After some bittersweet experiences, Jack learns there is not such thing as a perfect family and his own is more caring, supportive, and stronger then he knew." --
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A collection of never-before-published short stories by many of our most preeminent authors as well as up-and-coming superstars. Published in partnership with the beloved literary radio program and live show Selected Shorts"--
