- Published: 04/04/2013
- ISBN: 9781847087263
- 129x20mm
- 368 pages
Music For Torching
A.M. Homes
Paul and Elaine have two boys and a beautiful home, yet they find themselves thoroughly, inexplicably stuck. Obsessed with ‘making things good again’, they spin the quiet terrors of family life into a fantastical frenzy that careers well and truly out of control.
As A.M. Homes’s incendiary novel unfolds, the technicolour hues of the American good life become nearly hallucinogenic: from a strange and hilarious encounter on the floor of the pantry with a Stepford Wife neighbour, to a house-cleaning team in space suits, to a hostage situation at the school. Homes lays bare the foundations of marriage and family life and creates characters outrageously flawed, deeply human and entirely believable.
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Homes doesn't so much critique suburban American life as shoot it, stab it, chuck it in the boot of her car and drive it into a lake
The Times
There have been very few women writers like Homes
Zadie Smith
The more bizarre things get, the more impressed one is by A.M. Homes's skills as a realist, a portraitist of contemporary life at its most perverse
David Leavitt
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Days of Awe
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Read the title story from AM Homes' dazzling new collection of short stories, Days of Awe, available now from Granta Books.