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May We Be Forgiven
A.m. Homes
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Description for May We Be Forgiven
Paperback. The dark and dazzling new novel from the author of the major bestseller This Book Will Save Your Life Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 31. Weight in Grams: 338.
WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 'Reads like a brilliant miniseries... Has the narrative intensity of Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections and the emotional punch of Siri Hustvedt's What I Loved' Observer Harold Silver has spent a lifetime watching his taller, smarter, and more successful younger brother George acquire a covetable wife, two kids, and a beautiful home in New York City. But Harry also knows his brother has a murderous temper. When George loses control the result is an act of violence so shocking that both brothers are hurled into entirely new lives in ... Read morewhich they both must seek absolution. Suddenly Harry finds himself playing parent to his brother's two adolescent children, tumbling down a rabbit hole of online sex, and dealing with aging parents who move through life like travellers on a fantastic voyage. And he is forced to confront the ways in which our histories can either compel us to repeat our mistakes - or become the catalyst for change. May We Be Forgiven is a darkly funny tale exploring how one deeply fractured family might begin to put itself back together. 'An unflinching account of a catastrophic, violent, black-comic, transformative year in the history of one broken American family. Flat-out amazing' Salman Rushdie Show Less
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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, Places ... Read moreand 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 is currently writing for a new major US TV Series. She lives in New York City. Show Less
Reviews for May We Be Forgiven
This novel starts at maximum force - and then it really gets going. I can't remember when I last read a novel of such narrative intensity; an unflinching account of a catastrophic, violent, black-comic, transformative year in the history of one broken American family. Flat-out amazing
Salman Rushdie I started reading A.M. Homes twenty years ago. Wild and funny, ... Read morequestioning and true, she is a writer to go travelling with on the journey called life
Jeanette Winterson Reads like a brilliant miniseries. I gorged on it like a DVD boxset... Homes is dark and funny and elegant all at the same time. [This] has the narrative intensity of Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections and the emotional punch of Siri Hustvedt's What I Loved, all told through the eyes of Larry David. It's the best thing I've read this year... Masterful
Viv Groskop
Observer
Wonderful, wild, heartbreaking, hilarious and astonishing... This is a piercing, perceptive and deeply funny novel about the nature of life, family and love
Doug Johnstone
Independent on Sunday
A.M. Homes has long been one of our most important and original writers. May We Be Forgiven is her most ambitious as well as her most accessible novel to date; sex and violence invade the routines of suburban domestic life in a way that reminded me of The World According to Garp, although in the end it's a thoroughly original work of imagination
Jay McInerney Exhilarating
Lucy Lethbridge, Books of the Year
Observer
The most thrilling, ambitious, thought-provoking American novel to have emerged in a long while
David Evans, Books of the Year
Independent on Sunday
Every page crackles with wit and intelligence
Marcus Berkmann, Books of the Year
Spectator
One of the most acclaimed American writers of her generation
Richard Grant
Telegraph Magazine
Laugh out loud funny... Completely wonderful. Extraordinary
BBC Radio 4
Saturday Review
Being a clever American novel, this is also an examination of the American dream... but, wherever you live, Homes's sharp, detailed prose will teem with gloriously free, un-airbrushed life
Tim Auld
Sunday Telegraph
A brilliantly funny tale of a fractured family... [An] unmissable novel
Eithne Farry
Marie Claire
Homes returns with another stylish read... Those who wish Jonathan Franzen wrote more frequently will devour Homes's work, and rightly so
Elle Magazine
Funny, nerve-touching, intelligent and even heartbreakingly sweet. You won't read many like this one, that's for sure
Psychologies
Her language is precise, her observations astute, her style punchy, her view of the world dark, but somehow accurate - disturbingly so
Lucy Atkin
Sunday Times
To call [this] "compelling" would be an understatement; it is a novel as compulsive as its characters
Emily Stokes
Financial Times
Homes manages a high-wire act in [this]. There are moments of outright satire... but these are always held in tandem to moments of real emotional engagement and insight... Sparkling
Stuart Kelly
Scotsman
A vitriolic satire of contemporary American society, often very funny and at times completely savage... Homes crafts a bold and genuinely disturbing attack on vanity, money-lust and our Faustian pact with materialism
Joanna Kavenna
Literary Review
[A] humane, comic story of a good man trying to do the right thing
Vogue
A novel of great scope, taking some truly hideous events and spiking them with humour and realism
Emerald Street
A tour-de-force of pitch-black comedy... Excellent
Theo Tait
Guardian
Horribly funny and unexpectedly uplifting
Amber Pearson
Daily Mail
Bleakly funny
Claire Allfree
Metro
Immensely likeable and sustained throughout by a vividly described plot heaving with believable grotesques... Homes has a feel for the comedic that is as well developed as her chillingly direct grasp of horror... A funny, fast-moving, picaresque, baggy satire
Eileen Battersby
Irish Times
Blackly humorous
Independent
Capable, likeable, readable
Sarah Churchill
New Statesman
Brilliant... Homes draw[s] fascinatingly complex, flawed characters whose domestic situations run scarily outside their own control. Do yourself a favour and read this book
Bella
Humane [and] comic
Vogue
A bonkers yet quite brilliant book ... It deserves to be called a work of art
Sarah Vine
The Times
Homes plays with the substance of the American dream, and gives us a horrific, internet-age deconstruction... only connect, Homes tells us, and we can escape the nightmare of the 21st century
Philip Womack
Telegraph
Complex, nuanced and so engrossing that it makes you wish the real world would go away and leave you to read... A huge-hearted expansive book, simultaneously nightmare-black and extremely funny
Lisa Gee
Independent
She has a deadpan understated humour that builds line by line into comic intent
Jeanette Winterson
Guardian
[A] comic epic of modern America
Sarah Churchwell
New Statesman
[Homes'] dialogue is extremely funny, worthy of a stand-up comic-rapid and raw... Unrelenting and endlessly inventive
Edmund White
New York Book Review
Her biggest, broadest, most spacious novel yet, a dark carnival of American life in the 21st century... Cool, controlled... extraordinarily lucid
Christopher Bollen
Interview Magazine
One of the strangest, most gripping and satisfyingly ugly books I've read in a long time
Thomas Quinn
Big Issue
Laced with her trademark dark humour and emotional intensity, it's also a savage meditation on sex, violence, success, fulfilment and modern life... Epic
Diva
This is the great American novel for our time
Jeanette Winterson, Books of the Year
Guardian
Wonderful, strange... at once dystopian and utopian, hovering somewhere between satire and sentiment
Hannah Forbes Black
National
One of the best new American novels
Edmund White, Books of the Year
Times Literary Supplement
The incendiary A.M. Homes exposes the black-comic mayhem behind the American front door
Boyd Tonkin, Books of the Year
Independent
Sit back and enjoy Homes's delicious black humour, her sharp characterisation, and thrilling narrative intensity
David Evans
Independent on Sunday
[A] compelling dysfunctional family saga... Homes doesn't chronicle US life as much as take a cleaver to it and relish in the blood-splattered aftermath
Darragh Reddin
Metro
I would not lose a word of her whip-sharp wit or unerring dialogue... Truly to die for
Madeleine Kingsley
Jewish Chronicle
A white-knuckle black comedy about the vagaries of 21st-century living
Doug Johnstone, Books of the Year
Scotsman
[It] is a savage and dizzyingly inventive satire on contemporary America, whose dark heart Homes penetrates like no other writer... Inspiring
Stylist
Truly original, highly topical and yet, I suspect, utterly timeless
Laissez Faire
You'd have to have no sense of the absurd, and no sense of humour, not to be pretty impressed
Theo Tait
Guardian
Compulsive and authentic
Lesley McDowell
Sunday Herald
Touching and uplifting
Daily Telegraph
Dazzling
Sunday Telegraph
A bristly, bumpy ride of a novel
Katya Johnson
Daily Express
At once affecting and uproarious, the characters that Homes so deftly conjures will stay with readers well beyond when the final pages are turned
Sonia Nair
Kill Your Darlings
Searing
Kate Mosse
Mail on Sunday
It's strong stuff, and all the better for it
Guardian
Horribly funny and unexpectedly uplifting... Sensational
Daily Mail
Acutely observed
Women and Home
A novel that has everything: laughs; sibling hatred; horrifying turns of events; online misadventures... and the general meaning of life
Simon Schama
Mail on Sunday
Darkly funny and compelling... [It] is the latest in a series of novels that display Homes' talent as one of the most consistently talented, funny and challenging storytellers of her generation
Huffington Post
Hilariously clever
Viv Groskop, Books of the Year
Observer
This has all her mordant wit and close observation of flawed humanity
Raffaella Barker
Daily Mail
[A] deeply enjoyable tale of festering sibling rivalry gone horribly wrong
Pride
A big American novel about family... funny and edging towards surreal in places. The book has a huge heart and an easy brilliance. A novel with everything
Alex Hourston
Metro
One of those rare delights: a weird, scary, comic novel that actually makes you laugh out loud
Simon Schama
Mail on Sunday
The wicked humour draws you in, but the cracking energy keeps you reading; there's a fierceness here that makes this tale of violence and family life quite unforgettable
Natasha Walter
Stylist
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