A. M. Homes Livres

Homme d'affaires bientôt quinquagénaire et déjà coupé du monde, Richard Novak ne sort plus guère de sa luxueuse maison qui domine Los Angeles, se consacrant au double entretien compulsif de sa fortune sur Internet et de sa forme physique. Deux incidents viennent un jour le réveiller et bouleverser son existence. Le premier prend la forme d'une intense douleur physique défiant toute tentative de diagnostic. Le second est le spectacle inquiétant offert par l'étrange dépression de terrain qui s'approfondit à quelques mètres de sa forteresse californienne... Notre homme s'aperçoit alors avec stupéfaction qu'une ex-mère au foyer déprimée et une star d'Hollywood peuvent avoir mille choses à se dire, qu'un partenariat commercial peut naître entre le financier qu'il est, un vendeur de donuts immigré et un ancien beatnik icône de la contre-culture, que les amitiés ne connaissent de frontières ni ethniques ni sociales, enfin qu'aucun père ne peut décider d'oublier son fils - et inversement. Se risquer à vivre, réapprendre le goût des autres... Et si le salut résidait dans l'aventure très concrètement humaine ?

A collection of charismatic and humorous stories about the bizarreness of the every-day.

Bored with their lives and tired of their marriage, Paul and Elaine turn a family barbecue into a bonfire and watch their dreams go up in smoke. But will burning down their house solve all their problems?

Jack is a teenager who wants nothing more than to be normal - even if being normal means having divorced parents and a rather strange best friend. But when Jack's father takes him out in a rowboat on Lake Watchmayoyo and tells his son that he's gay, nothing will ever be normal again.

Treads the wafer-thin line between the evil and the everyday and caused a major controversy when it was first released in the US

Harry has always envied his younger brother George - a high-flying TV executive with two kids, a beautiful home and a covetable wife - but Harry also knows that George is a dangerous man with a murderous temper. When an adulterous kiss at Thanksgiving prompts a chain of unexpected events, George finally loses control, and the result is an act so shocking that the brothers are hurled into entirely new lives, ones in which they must both seek absolution. ~from the back cover

For Claire Roth, an established psychotherapist with an adoring husband and children, the lines between friendship and family, between love and compulsion, begin to lose their focus when she meets a new patient.

The Big Guy loves his family, money and democracy. Undone by the results of the 2008 Presidential election, he taps a group of like-minded men to reclaim their version of America. As they build a scheme to disturb and disrupt, the Big Guy also faces turbulence within his family and must take responsibility for his past actions. For his wife and daughter are having their own awakenings self-denying Charlotte enters rehab, and eighteen year old Megan, who has voted for the first time, explores a political future that deviates from her fathers ideology, while delving into deeply buried family secrets.Dark, funny and prescient, The

The Safety of Objects is A.M. Homes' debut collection of short stories, showcasing her trademark humor, perversion, and extraordinary storytelling.

A stunning new collection of short stories from the winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction.