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Description for Music for Torching
Paperback. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
Paul and Elaine have two boys and a beautiful home, yet they find themselves thoroughly, inexplicably stuck. Obsessed with 'making things good again', they spin the quiet terrors of family life into a fantastical frenzy that careens well and truly out of control. As A. M. Homes's incendiary novel unfolds, the Kodacolor hues of the American good life become nearly hallucinogenic: from a strange and hilarious encounter on the floor of the pantry with a Stepford-wife neighbour, to a house-cleaning team in space suits, to a hostage situation at the school. Homes lays bare the foundations of marriage and family ... Read more
Paul and Elaine have two boys and a beautiful home, yet they find themselves thoroughly, inexplicably stuck. Obsessed with 'making things good again', they spin the quiet terrors of family life into a fantastical frenzy that careens well and truly out of control. As A. M. Homes's incendiary novel unfolds, the Kodacolor hues of the American good life become nearly hallucinogenic: from a strange and hilarious encounter on the floor of the pantry with a Stepford-wife neighbour, to a house-cleaning team in space suits, to a hostage situation at the school. Homes lays bare the foundations of marriage and family ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Granta Books
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781862078895
SKU
KJE0001558
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About A M Homes
AM Homes is the author of several novels -, The End of Alice, In a Country of Mothers, and Jack - and two collections of short stories, The Safety of Objects and the recent highly acclaimed Things You Should Know all published by Granta. She is a contributing editor to Vanity Fair and teaches in the writing programme at Columbia ... Read more
Reviews for Music for Torching
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'Homes doesn't so much critique suburban American life as shoot it, stab it, chuck it in the book of her car and drive it into a lake' The Times
'Homes opens a window on a world where our neuroses rot in full view' Sunday Herald (Glasgow)
'The more bizarre things get, the more impressed one is by ... Read more
'Homes doesn't so much critique suburban American life as shoot it, stab it, chuck it in the book of her car and drive it into a lake' The Times
'Homes opens a window on a world where our neuroses rot in full view' Sunday Herald (Glasgow)
'The more bizarre things get, the more impressed one is by ... Read more