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A. M. Homes

Autor(a) de This Book Will Save Your Life

51+ Works 7,674 Membros 253 Críticas 35 Favorited

About the Author

A. M. Homes is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair.
Image credit: Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007

Obras por A. M. Homes

This Book Will Save Your Life (2006) 1,654 exemplares
The End of Alice (1996) 1,182 exemplares
May We Be Forgiven (2012) 1,084 exemplares
Safety of Objects (1990) 767 exemplares
The Mistress's Daughter: A Memoir (2007) 736 exemplares
Music for Torching (1999) 668 exemplares
Jack (1989) 432 exemplares
In a Country of Mothers (1993) 326 exemplares
Days of Awe: Stories (2018) 112 exemplares
The Unfolding (2022) 83 exemplares
A.M. Homes: Appendix A (1996) 46 exemplares
Carroll Dunham (2002) 30 exemplares
Bill Owens (2008) 22 exemplares
The Unfolding (2022) 7 exemplares
Hello Everybody (2012) 4 exemplares
Do Not Disturb 3 exemplares
Jours redoutables (2020) 1 exemplar
Mauvaise mère (2018) 1 exemplar
A Encomenda 1 exemplar
Lost Weekend 1 exemplar
América Em Chamas 1 exemplar

Associated Works

The Lottery and Other Stories (1949) — Introdução, algumas edições3,600 exemplares
Falconer (1977) — Introdução, algumas edições1,396 exemplares
The Book of Other People (2008) — Contribuidor — 737 exemplares
The Best American Short Stories 2008 (2008) — Contribuidor — 568 exemplares
The Penguin Book of Gay Short Stories (1994) — Contribuidor — 317 exemplares
The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories (2004) — Contribuidor — 262 exemplares
Granta 84: Over There: How America Sees the World (2004) — Contribuidor — 228 exemplares
The Diary of a Rapist (1966) — Introdução, algumas edições191 exemplares
McSweeney's Issue 7 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern) (2001) — Contribuidor — 177 exemplares
This Is My Best: Great Writers Share Their Favorite Work (2004) — Contribuidor — 159 exemplares
XXX: 30 Porn-Star Portraits (1605) — Contribuidor — 159 exemplares
The Best of McSweeney's {complete} (1800) — Contribuidor — 143 exemplares
Granta 74: Confessions of a Middle-Aged Ecstasy Eater (2001) — Contribuidor — 140 exemplares
Mistresses of the Dark [Anthology] (1998) — Contribuidor — 121 exemplares
Burned Children of America (2001) — Contribuidor — 121 exemplares
Know the Past, Find the Future: The New York Public Library at 100 (2011) — Contribuidor — 116 exemplares
Full Frontal Fiction: The Best of Nerve.com (2000) — Contribuidor — 72 exemplares
Granta 137: Followers (2016) — Contribuidor — 56 exemplares
Granta 143: After the Fact (2018) — Contribuidor — 43 exemplares
Love Is Strange: Stories of Postmodern Romance (1993) — Contribuidor — 32 exemplares
The Safety of Objects [2001 film] (2001) — Original stories — 14 exemplares
Harde liefde de ruigste verhalen uit de wereldliteratuur (1994) — Contribuidor — 12 exemplares

Etiquetado

Conhecimento Comum

Nome canónico
Amy M. Homes
Nome legal
Homes, Amy Michael
Outros nomes
Homes, Amy M.
Data de nascimento
1961-12-18
Sexo
female
Nacionalidade
USA
Local de nascimento
Washington, D.C., USA
Locais de residência
Washington, D.C., USA
New York, New York, USA
Educação
American University
Sarah Lawrence College (BA | 1985)
University of Iowa (MFA | 1988)
Ocupações
fiction writer
memoirist
screenwriter
teacher
Prémios e menções honrosas
Benjamin Franklin Award
National Endowment for the Arts fellowship
New York Foundation for the Arts Artists fellowship
New York Public Library. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers fellowship
Guggenheim Foundation fellowship (1998)

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A.M. Homes is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and has published fiction and essays in The New Yorker, Harpers, McSweeny's and the New York Times. She lives in New York City. [from The Mistress's Daughter (2007)

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Starts off strong but goes from one extreme of negativity to an overly sappy, heart-warming second half. I enjoyed how the author has fun with Jewish family craziness.
 
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monicaberger | 58 outras críticas | Jan 22, 2024 |
Ojalá nos perdonen
A. M. Homes
Publicado: 2012 | 439 páginas
Novela Psicológico

Tolstói iniciaba «Anna Karenina» con aquella célebre sentencia que dice «todas las familias felices son iguales; las familias infelices lo son cada una a su manera». ¿Siguen siendo las familias de hoy como las de la época de Tolstói? A. M. Homes parece llevar tiempo buscando la respuesta a esta pregunta, porque la familia —sus desequilibrios, disfunciones y secretos inconfesables— es un tema recurrente en su obra siempre acompañado de una mirada ácida y sarcástica sobre las paradojas y perplejidades de la sociedad norteamericana contemporánea. En esta novela aparecen de nuevo la familia y la América suburbana a través de dos hermanos. Harry, el mayor, historiador que trabaja en una biografía de Nixon, siempre ha sentido cierta envidia del pequeño, George, más alto, más listo y más próspero con una prometedora carrera como ejecutivo televisivo. Pero Harry también sabe que George tiene un temperamento explosivo y es imprevisible cuando pierde el control. Una de estas pérdidas de control de George acaba en tragedia: atropella a una pareja, deja un niño huérfano y, atormentado por la culpa, acaba ingresado en un psiquiátrico. Harry pasa entonces por un periodo complicado, que incluirá un revolcón con su cuñada con un final truculento, la búsqueda de sexo por internet, la preocupación por sus ancianos padres y la cólera de su mujer cuando descubre el revolcón. Pero sobre todo Harry debe hacerse cargo de los dos hijos de su hermano, a los que se sumará el huérfano del accidente, y con ellos formará una nueva familia, sin duda peculiar, pero que permitirá restañar heridas y pensar en el futuro.… (mais)
 
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libreriarofer | 58 outras críticas | Dec 13, 2023 |
I'm really surprised by how much I related to this memoir---like scarily so. I received this in a BookCrossing bookbox and dismissed it several times before deciding to give it a try. Weirdly, it was almost calling out to me to read it. I'm so glad I did---I devoured it in one afternoon. It didn't really solve or fix anything for me...just got me thinking and contemplating about my past and family stuff that I don't process through as much as I should.

Homes's memoir brings to mind so many thoughts on identity and the gut-born desire to be truly known. This passage resonated with me:

"I grew up convinced that every family was better than mine...I would hover on the edge, knowing that however much they include you--invite you to dinner, take you on family trips--you are never official, you are always the 'friend', the first one left behind."

That's exactly how I felt after my parents' divorce---the unwanted stepkid on both sides. Both parents tried to make me a part of their twisted new "family units" but I was already a part of only one family unit---the one they'd divided.

I was not adopted but I relate to so much of this story. We have in common the messed up desire to please lousy parents---to perform and hope they'll find us good enough to let into the selfish world they shut us out of. (My mom is a much different person now than she was in the years just after her divorce and she's an important part of my life now.) I don't often think back on the hard years but this story reminded me of that vulnerable girl who was looking to be loved and cared for by those who couldn't get past themselves to do it properly.

I thought of my dad when the author said after hearing her mother was sick, "I was so busy protecting myself from her that I didn't...(recognize) the trouble she was in." It's a messed up world when this is the relationship one has with her parent(s).

Cleaning up the home after her mother's death she says, "This is not how (she) would have wanted to have been presented---but this is who she is and what she left behind." This makes me think of my dad's mom who was estranged from us until the last few years of her life. This is how I felt after her death and I wondered if I was the only one in the whole world who even semi-mourned her. I mourned the "could have been" rather than the "was".

So there you go...a look into my guts. Probably won't see another one for awhile. Maybe I need to go back to the Aunt Dimitys...
… (mais)
 
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classyhomemaker | 42 outras críticas | Dec 11, 2023 |
The Unfolding, A. M. Homes, author, William Damron, narrator
In this novel, the year is 2008, and the results of the election have thrown some members of the Republican Party into a state if panic and turmoil. A small group, some of whom are crude, is organized by “the big guy”. He sets about to right the sinking ship and to restore the Republican Party to power, by revitalizing the policies and values of the Founding Fathers. The means would justify the ends. They believed they were guided by their love of the country, but their need to regain the spotlight seemed to highly motivate them. They were determined to stop the country from going downhill under the leadership of Barack Hussein Obama. They could not believe that they had lost the bully pulpit. They had taken their eye off the ball.
According to the book, these men worked with an “underground group that claims to have been formed around the time of Israel’s creation. Behind the scenes they set the stage to take back control, creating false rumors of socialism and pandemics, while also arranging other chaotic events. Included in the narrative are the personal trials of some of the characters. This enabled the author to insert current liberal issues like those concerning sexual preference and women’s rights.
Today, we have witnessed the fruition of many of the ideas presented in this book. However, although the author seemed to be mocking and branding the Republicans as the ones capable of this treachery, a dream that would take some decade and a half to fulfill, so that in 2026, all would be “right” with the world, in actuality, it was the Democrats who have overtly committed these same acts the author ascribed to the Republicans. They have made false accusations about people and instigated the environment that has created instability and unexpected crises, throwing the world into a state of turmoil.
Could the author have imagined, when she wrote the book, that the world would be spinning so far out of control? In retrospect, with a clearer, perhaps more honest eye, looking back over the last decade and a half, to Obama’s election and the changes he hoped to make and did make, it might seem obvious that the chaos and confusion was created by those on the left, as the Progressives gained more and more control of the message and began to corrupt the core values of the country regarding right and wrong, election integrity and civil rights. When the FBI, the CIA, the DOJ and the media all fell in line with them, the stage was set.
Then, in light of the recent horror of October 7th, 2023, the attack on Israel, in which a massacre occurred that has not been adequately condemned by the Democrats or their members, some of whom are actively instigating and encouraging violence, supporting terrorists, the relevance of the book seemed to pale in my eyes.
Perhaps the author meant it as a humorous view of politics, with its flaws, but it turned out to be prophetic. The election of 2008 actually ushered in an era of division and hate, promoted by identity politics and the left.
… (mais)
 
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thewanderingjew | 1 outra crítica | Oct 26, 2023 |

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Obras
51
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Membros
7,674
Popularidade
#3,177
Avaliação
½ 3.7
Críticas
253
ISBN
256
Línguas
12
Marcado como favorito
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