Description
FROM THE WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION. A.M Homes returns with signature humour and psychological accuracy, to tell thirteen stories exposing the heart of an uneasy 21st-century America. In tales of a family obsessed with the surfaces of their lives, or the story of a shopper who suddenly finds himself nominated to run for President, she explores 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. Her first book since the Women's Prize-winning May We Be Forgiven, Days of Awe is another visionary, fearless and outrageously funny work from a master storyteller.
A stunning new collection of short stories from the winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction
About the Author
A.M. Homes is the author of the novels May We Be Forgiven, which won the Women's Prize 2013, This Book Will Save Your Life, a Richard and Judy pick in 2007, Music for Torching, The End of Alice, In a Country of Mothers and Jack, two collections of short stories, Things You Should Know and The Safety of Objects, and the highly acclaimed memoir The Mistress's Daughter, as well as the travel memoir Los Angeles: People, Places and the Castle on the Hill. She is a contributing editor to Vanity Fair and writes frequently on arts and culture for numerous magazines and newspapers. She lives in New York City.
Reviews
The direct, acerbic writing here feels enjoyably characteristic of [Homes'] whole oeuvre...She narrates the stories in a pacy present tense, energised by amusing quips and details -- Lara Feigel * Observer *
Superb -- Tim Smith-Laing * Daily Telegraph *
Homes is... at her merciless satirical best in skewering the comedy of disappointment and dread, the squirm of self indulgence and self-justification' -- Tessa Hadley * Guardian *
Homes is a devastating satirist and many a passage is wickedly sharp... funny... The humour is complicated by a wistfulness and yearning , a lostness and sorrow, that's fruitfully inclusive -- Lionel Shriver * Financial Times *
Homes's dialogue is sharp, clever and often darkly funny -- Eithne Farry * Daily Mail *
Homes's keen ear for speech highlights the challenges of communicating -- Keziah Weir * Vanity Fair (US) *
At turns surreal, dark and occasionally - in one case literally - uplifting, there's plenty of acerbic wit in this collection by a mistress of the genre. Awe-inspiring -- Jaine Blackman * Oxford Times *
[Her] best stories are original and destabilising, at once melancholy and absurd... As ingenious as ever -- Hannah Rosefield * New Statesman *
Homes is one of the most provocative of American writers, and these stories are sure to be just as impressive -- Summer Books round up selected by John Boyne * Irish Times *
The corporeal body takes centre stage throughout [and] a distinctive black humour abounds... "Handle with care" is the warning that springs to mind -- Lucy Scholes * Independent *
These stories offer rich rewards -- Suzi Feay * Literary Review *
Unusually for a short story collection, Homes never misses a hit. That said, 'A Prize for Every Player'[...]is a particular triumph -- Katie Welsh * Diva *
These defiantly comic stories are like postcards from contemporary America -- Summer Books * Mail on Sunday *
Breathtakingly accurate satire and laser-cut portraits of American life from a seriously heavyweight author whose snapshots remained etched on the retinas -- ES Magazine * Evening Standard *
Puts a surreal slant on everyday America and celebrates the psyche at its most bizarre... Brilliantly biting stories -- Madeleine Kingsley * Jewish Chronicle *
Storytelling of the most exquisite kind - insightful, observant, wickedly funny and revealing of the human heart in all its complexity -- Helena Kennedy QC
[A] diverse and thoughtfully considered collection... Thought-provoking -- Diana Hendry * Spectator *
A short story collection that skewers the craziness of modern line, from the cult of consumerism to the false intimacy of social media * Good Housekeeping *
Homes has long been a master of exposing the lurid reality lying just beneath the everyday...There is horror of a higher sort, that of memory and mortality. Here there are tenacious terrors that linger long after you close the book * Prospect *
A satiric, surreal take on contemporary America...funny, outrageous, reflective and shot through with unexpected tenderness -- Joanne Hayden * Irish Independent *
Book Information
ISBN 9781847083258
Author A.M. Homes
Format Hardback
Page Count 304
Imprint Granta Books
Publisher Granta Books
Weight(grams) 391g
Dimensions(mm) 216mm * 135mm * 18mm
A stunning new collection of short stories from the winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction
About the Author
A.M. Homes is the author of the novels May We Be Forgiven, which won the Women's Prize 2013, This Book Will Save Your Life, a Richard and Judy pick in 2007, Music for Torching, The End of Alice, In a Country of Mothers and Jack, two collections of short stories, Things You Should Know and The Safety of Objects, and the highly acclaimed memoir The Mistress's Daughter, as well as the travel memoir Los Angeles: People, Places and the Castle on the Hill. She is a contributing editor to Vanity Fair and writes frequently on arts and culture for numerous magazines and newspapers. She lives in New York City.
Reviews
The direct, acerbic writing here feels enjoyably characteristic of [Homes'] whole oeuvre...She narrates the stories in a pacy present tense, energised by amusing quips and details -- Lara Feigel * Observer *
Superb -- Tim Smith-Laing * Daily Telegraph *
Homes is... at her merciless satirical best in skewering the comedy of disappointment and dread, the squirm of self indulgence and self-justification' -- Tessa Hadley * Guardian *
Homes is a devastating satirist and many a passage is wickedly sharp... funny... The humour is complicated by a wistfulness and yearning , a lostness and sorrow, that's fruitfully inclusive -- Lionel Shriver * Financial Times *
Homes's dialogue is sharp, clever and often darkly funny -- Eithne Farry * Daily Mail *
Homes's keen ear for speech highlights the challenges of communicating -- Keziah Weir * Vanity Fair (US) *
At turns surreal, dark and occasionally - in one case literally - uplifting, there's plenty of acerbic wit in this collection by a mistress of the genre. Awe-inspiring -- Jaine Blackman * Oxford Times *
[Her] best stories are original and destabilising, at once melancholy and absurd... As ingenious as ever -- Hannah Rosefield * New Statesman *
Homes is one of the most provocative of American writers, and these stories are sure to be just as impressive -- Summer Books round up selected by John Boyne * Irish Times *
The corporeal body takes centre stage throughout [and] a distinctive black humour abounds... "Handle with care" is the warning that springs to mind -- Lucy Scholes * Independent *
These stories offer rich rewards -- Suzi Feay * Literary Review *
Unusually for a short story collection, Homes never misses a hit. That said, 'A Prize for Every Player'[...]is a particular triumph -- Katie Welsh * Diva *
These defiantly comic stories are like postcards from contemporary America -- Summer Books * Mail on Sunday *
Breathtakingly accurate satire and laser-cut portraits of American life from a seriously heavyweight author whose snapshots remained etched on the retinas -- ES Magazine * Evening Standard *
Puts a surreal slant on everyday America and celebrates the psyche at its most bizarre... Brilliantly biting stories -- Madeleine Kingsley * Jewish Chronicle *
Storytelling of the most exquisite kind - insightful, observant, wickedly funny and revealing of the human heart in all its complexity -- Helena Kennedy QC
[A] diverse and thoughtfully considered collection... Thought-provoking -- Diana Hendry * Spectator *
A short story collection that skewers the craziness of modern line, from the cult of consumerism to the false intimacy of social media * Good Housekeeping *
Homes has long been a master of exposing the lurid reality lying just beneath the everyday...There is horror of a higher sort, that of memory and mortality. Here there are tenacious terrors that linger long after you close the book * Prospect *
A satiric, surreal take on contemporary America...funny, outrageous, reflective and shot through with unexpected tenderness -- Joanne Hayden * Irish Independent *
Book Information
ISBN 9781847083258
Author A.M. Homes
Format Hardback
Page Count 304
Imprint Granta Books
Publisher Granta Books
Weight(grams) 391g
Dimensions(mm) 216mm * 135mm * 18mm
