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This Book Will Save Your Life
A.m. Homes
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Description for This Book Will Save Your Life
Paperback. Short listed for the Richard & Judy Book Club 2007. Presents a story set in Los Angeles about one man's effort to bring himself back to life. This work reveals what can happen if you are willing to open up to the world around you. Num Pages: 380 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 129 x 29. Weight in Grams: 286. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
This Book Will Save Your Life is an uplifting story about one man's efforts to bring himself back to life. Richard is a modern-day everyman, a middle-aged divorcee trading stocks out of his home in Los Angeles who needs no one. His life has slowed almost to a standstill until two incidents conspire to hurl him back into the world. One day he wakes up with a knotty cramp in his back, which rapidly develops into an all-consuming pain. At the same time a wide sinkhole appears outside his living-room window, threatening the foundations of his house. A vivid novel ... Read more
This Book Will Save Your Life is an uplifting story about one man's efforts to bring himself back to life. Richard is a modern-day everyman, a middle-aged divorcee trading stocks out of his home in Los Angeles who needs no one. His life has slowed almost to a standstill until two incidents conspire to hurl him back into the world. One day he wakes up with a knotty cramp in his back, which rapidly develops into an all-consuming pain. At the same time a wide sinkhole appears outside his living-room window, threatening the foundations of his house. A vivid novel ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2007
Condition
Used, Very Good
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Granta Books
Number of Pages
380
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781862079335
SKU
KAK0010656
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-2
About A.m. Homes
A. M. HOMES is the author of the novels, This Book Will Save Your Life, 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, ... Read more
Reviews for This Book Will Save Your Life
A. M. Homes' new novel is weird and warm and wise and really rather wonderful
Mark Haddon Witty and well written while in pursuit of the spirits living inside the machine
Times
Homes is excellent on the inner workings of men
Time Out
There's weird and there's dark and there are the stories of this ... Read more
Mark Haddon Witty and well written while in pursuit of the spirits living inside the machine
Times
Homes is excellent on the inner workings of men
Time Out
There's weird and there's dark and there are the stories of this ... Read more