May We Be Forgiven: A Novel A. M. Homes
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
Homes new novel, May We Be Forgiven, despite The New York Times review, finding good things was not difficult. Homes' latest book is a picaresque rollercoaster of a story. Sep 10, 2012 - Wickedly funny yet refreshingly hopeful, A.M. Summary: Feeling *Starred Review* Incisive, funny, and commanding, Homes broke new ground in her last novel, This Book Will Save Your Life (2006). Oct 30, 2012 - Celebrity Book Review: John Malkovich reviews A.M. Sep 25, 2012 - Subjects Discussed: May We Be Forgiven as an update to White Noise, Nixon as a replacement for the Holocaust, Don DeLillo's influence, Ann Beattie's Mrs. In fact, it's one of the best novels I read all year. Homes's oeuvre smoke crack, set their homes ablaze, lust for Barbie dolls, and teach teenage girls the art of perversion. Jul 31, 2013 - The opening pages of May We Be Forgiven (winner of this year's Women's Prize for Fiction) are crowded with acts of careless vice, ranging from adultery and culminating in murder. An incantation, a prayer, the hope that somehow I come out of this alive. Oct 10, 2012 - May We Be Forgiven is explicitly a novel of mid-life crisis: "Looking at myself, my half-spent life," thinks Harold, "I find it unbearable that this is where I have ended up. Homes's new novel, May We Be Forgiven , sounds like one from television's Modern Family. Homes has a gift for writing satire that melds heartbreak with cutting wit, and her latest novel May We Be Forgiven is a darkly comic masterpiece that may be her best yet. Apr 1, 2014 - May we be forgiven - Homes, A.M.. Nov 9, 2012 - One novel, 'The End of Alice', was about a child molester. Oct 15, 2012 - The family that runs much of the action and is cobbled together in A.M. Sep 22, 2013 - "May We Be Forgiven. Oct 19, 2012 - The suburban Dick and Jane characters of A.M.