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May We Be Forgiven

A.M. Homes

May We Be Forgiven
May We Be Forgiven

May We Be Forgiven

A.M. Homes

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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.

Specificaties

  • Uitgever
    Granta Books
  • Verschenen
    apr. 2013
  • Bladzijden
    496
  • Genre
    Moderne & contemporaine literatuur
  • Afmetingen
    198 x 129 x 31 mm
  • Gewicht
    339 gram
  • EAN
    9781847083234
  • Paperback
    Paperback
  • Taal
    Engels

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