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The Mistress's Daughter: A Memoir
A.m. Homes
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Description for The Mistress's Daughter: A Memoir
Hardcover. Very good copy in near fine dustwrapper...First edition
On the day that Homes was born in 1961, she was given up for adoption. Her birth parents were a twenty-two year old woman and an older married man with whom she was having an affair. Thirty years later, out of the blue, Homes was contacted by a lawyer on behalf of her birth mother, and they began to correspond; her biological father contacted her soon after. These two individuals and their effect on the adult Homes are strange and unexpected, and the story spirals into something utterly raw and hilarious, heartbreaking and absurd. Along the way, Homes describes the ... Read more
On the day that Homes was born in 1961, she was given up for adoption. Her birth parents were a twenty-two year old woman and an older married man with whom she was having an affair. Thirty years later, out of the blue, Homes was contacted by a lawyer on behalf of her birth mother, and they began to correspond; her biological father contacted her soon after. These two individuals and their effect on the adult Homes are strange and unexpected, and the story spirals into something utterly raw and hilarious, heartbreaking and absurd. Along the way, Homes describes the ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Granta Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781862079304
SKU
KEX0303254
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
About A.m. Homes
AM Homes is the author of five novels, In a Country of Mothers, The End of Alice, Music for Torching and Jack, and two collections of short stories, The Safety of Objects and Things You Should Know, all published by Granta. She lives in New York City.
Reviews for The Mistress's Daughter: A Memoir
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'Very few writers push the envelope with such style and confidence' Mark Haddon
'There have been very few women writers like Homes. This prose has teeth' Zadie Smith
'A deeply moral chronicler of her contemporary America' Ali Smith, Guardian"
'Very few writers push the envelope with such style and confidence' Mark Haddon
'There have been very few women writers like Homes. This prose has teeth' Zadie Smith
'A deeply moral chronicler of her contemporary America' Ali Smith, Guardian"