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The dark and dazzling new novel from the author of the major bestseller This Book Will Save Your Life
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
I started reading A.M. Homes twenty years ago. Wild and funny, questioning and true, she is a writer to go travelling with on the journey called life
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
Wonderful, wild, heartbreaking, hilarious and astonishing... This is a piercing, perceptive and deeply funny novel about the nature of life, family and love
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
Exhilarating
The most thrilling, ambitious, thought-provoking American novel to have emerged in a long while
Every page crackles with wit and intelligence
One of the most acclaimed American writers of her generation
Laugh out loud funny... Completely wonderful. Extraordinary
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
A brilliantly funny tale of a fractured family... [An] unmissable novel
Homes returns with another stylish read... Those who wish Jonathan Franzen wrote more frequently will devour Homes's work, and rightly so
Funny, nerve-touching, intelligent and even heartbreakingly sweet. You won't read many like this one, that's for sure
Her language is precise, her observations astute, her style punchy, her view of the world dark, but somehow accurate - disturbingly so
To call [this] "compelling" would be an understatement; it is a novel as compulsive as its characters
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
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
[A] humane, comic story of a good man trying to do the right thing
A novel of great scope, taking some truly hideous events and spiking them with humour and realism
A tour-de-force of pitch-black comedy... Excellent
Horribly funny and unexpectedly uplifting
Bleakly funny
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
Blackly humorous
Capable, likeable, readable
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
Humane [and] comic
A bonkers yet quite brilliant book ... It deserves to be called a work of art
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
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
She has a deadpan understated humour that builds line by line into comic intent
[A] comic epic of modern America
[Homes'] dialogue is extremely funny, worthy of a stand-up comic-rapid and raw... Unrelenting and endlessly inventive
Her biggest, broadest, most spacious novel yet, a dark carnival of American life in the 21st century... Cool, controlled... extraordinarily lucid
One of the strangest, most gripping and satisfyingly ugly books I've read in a long time
Laced with her trademark dark humour and emotional intensity, it's also a savage meditation on sex, violence, success, fulfilment and modern life... Epic
This is the great American novel for our time
Wonderful, strange... at once dystopian and utopian, hovering somewhere between satire and sentiment
One of the best new American novels
The incendiary A.M. Homes exposes the black-comic mayhem behind the American front door
Sit back and enjoy Homes's delicious black humour, her sharp characterisation, and thrilling narrative intensity
[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
I would not lose a word of her whip-sharp wit or unerring dialogue... Truly to die for
A white-knuckle black comedy about the vagaries of 21st-century living
[It] is a savage and dizzyingly inventive satire on contemporary America, whose dark heart Homes penetrates like no other writer... Inspiring
Truly original, highly topical and yet, I suspect, utterly timeless
You'd have to have no sense of the absurd, and no sense of humour, not to be pretty impressed
Compulsive and authentic
Touching and uplifting
Dazzling
A bristly, bumpy ride of a novel
At once affecting and uproarious, the characters that Homes so deftly conjures will stay with readers well beyond when the final pages are turned
Searing
It's strong stuff, and all the better for it
Horribly funny and unexpectedly uplifting... Sensational
Acutely observed
A novel that has everything: laughs; sibling hatred; horrifying turns of events; online misadventures... and the general meaning of life
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
Hilariously clever
This has all her mordant wit and close observation of flawed humanity
[A] deeply enjoyable tale of festering sibling rivalry gone horribly wrong
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
One of those rare delights: a weird, scary, comic novel that actually makes you laugh out loud
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
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 and 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.