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A.m. Homes
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May We Be Forgiven |
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No copies available |
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English |
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Paperback |
| Pages: |
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480 |
| Date: |
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2013 |
| ISBN: |
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184708723X |
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Granta/Portobello Omes |
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0.57 pounds |
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1.22 x 4.37 x 7.01 inches |
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1 Susan (Germany) |
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1 chris (Japan) |
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Harry is a Richard Nixon scholar who leads a quiet, regular life; his brother George is a high-flying TV producer, with a murderous temper. They have been uneasy rivals since childhood. Then one day George s loses control so extravagantly that he precipitates Harry into an entirely new life. In MAY WE BE FORGIVEN, Homes gives us a darkly comic look at 21st century domestic life - at individual lives spiraling out of control, bound together by family and history. The cast of characters experience adultery, accidents, divorce, and death. But it is also a savage and dizzyingly inventive satire on contemporary America, whose dark heart Homes penetrates like no other writer - the strange jargons of its language, its passive aggressive institutions, its inhabitants desperate craving for intimacy and their pushing it away with litigation, technology, paranoia. At the novel s heart are the spaces in between, where the modern family comes together to re-form itself. MAY WE BE FORGIVEN explores contemporary orphans losing and finding themselves anew; and it speaks above all to the power of personal transformation - simultaneously terrifying and inspiring.
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