May We be Forgiven

by: A. M. Homes

May We be Forgiven
Author: A. M. Homes

Publisher: Granta Books

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Format: Paperback / softback

Publication date: 11 October 2012

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ISBN: 1847083226 ISBN 13: 9781847083227

May We be Forgiven by A. M. Homes

The dark and dazzling new novel from the author of the major bestseller This Book Will Save Your Life Top page

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Harry is a Richard Nixon scholar who leads a quiet, regular life; his brother George is a high-flying TV producer, with a murderous temper. They have been uneasy rivals since childhood. Then one day George's loses control so extravagantly that he precipitates Harry into an entirely new life. In MAY WE BE FORGIVEN, Homes gives us a darkly comic look at 21st century domestic life - at individual lives spiraling out of control, bound together by family and history. The cast of characters experience adultery, accidents, divorce, and death. But it is also a savage and dizzyingly inventive satire on contemporary America, whose dark heart Homes penetrates like no other writer - the strange jargons of its language, its passive aggressive institutions, its inhabitants' desperate craving for intimacy and their pushing it away with litigation, technology, paranoia. At the novel's heart are the spaces in between, where the modern family comes together to re-form itself. MAY WE BE FORGIVEN explores contemporary orphans losing and finding themselves anew; and it speaks above all to the power of personal transformation - simultaneously terrifying and inspiring. Top page

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Publisher & Imprint: Granta Books

City: London

Pages: 368

More info: height 216 mm width 135 mm

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Age recommended: General/trade

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