A. M. Homes: This Book Will Save Your Life

This Book Will Save Your Life


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Short listed for the Richard & Judy Book Club 2007. An uplifting story set in Los Angeles about one man's effort to bring himself back to life. Richard is a modern day everyman; a middle-aged divorcee trading stocks out of his home. He has done such a good job getting his life under control that he 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 about compassion and transformation, "This Book Will Save Your Life" reveals what can happen if you are willing to open up to the world around you. Since her debut in 1989, A.M. Homes has been among the boldest and most original voices of her generation, acclaimed for the psychological accuracy and unnerving emotional intensity of her storytelling. Her keen ability to explore how extraordinary the ordinary can be is at the heart of her touching and funny new novel, her first in six years.

Includes information on John Dunning's new Cliff Janeway novel, "The Bookman's Promise, " coming soon in hardcover from Scribner He's a gentleman The Church in the Making explores the teaching of three documents from the Second Vatican Council on the nature of the church, while also considering how that teaching has been implemented in the last four decades. When a house explodes in a quiet Oxford suburb and a young girl disappears in the aftermath, Sarah Tucker a young married woman, bored and unhappy with domestic life becomes obsessed with finding her. Accustomed to dull chores in a childless household and hosting her husband s wearisome business clients for dinner, Sarah suddenly finds herself questioning everything she thought she knew, as her investigation reveals that people long This Book Will Save Your Life download ebook believed dead are still among the living, while the living are fast joining the dead. What begins in a peaceful neighborhood reaches its climax on a remote, unwelcoming Scottish island as the search puts Sarah in league with a man who finds himself being hunted down by murderous official forces."


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Author: A. M. Homes
Number of Pages: 380 pages
Published Date: 25 Jul 2016
Publisher: GRANTA BOOKS
Publication Country: London, United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN: 9781862079335
Download Link: Click Here
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