This Book Will Save Your Life

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It's been all over the TV," Richard says, leading him in, pointing to the screen. "You looked pretty good in that helicopter."

Middle-aged Richard Novak experiences diffuse intense pain and ends up in an Emergency Department, he also has a massive sinkhole growing next to his well-to-do home in LA. A commanding narrative…by turns witty and unnerving, and at times almost unbearable in its emotional intensity.”— Wall Street Journal Since her debut in 1989, A.M. Homes has been among the boldest and most original voices of her generation, acclaimed for the psychological accuracy and unnerving emotional intensity of her storytelling. Her keen ability to explore how extraordinary the ordinary can be is at the heart of her touching and funny new novel, her first in six years. Wonderfully skewed stories . . . sharp, funny, and playful . . . Homes is confident and consistent in her odd departures from life as we know it, sustaining credibility by getting details right. A fully engaged imagination [is] at work—and play.”—Amy Hempel, The Los Angeles Times In April of 2007 Viking published her long awaited memoir, The Mistress's Daughter, the story of the author being "found" by her biological family, and a literary exploration and investigation of identity, adoption and genealogical ties that bind.Yet, through all this you see him struggle with himself. His fear of dying, of not being a better son, brother, husband, father. This is what makes me just want to be in his presence, like maybe I’d catch some of what he is. I’d be tempted to use the word ‘aura’ but it might just be the Californian influence within the book, This is what made me hate to see the book end. There’s this great scene towards the end. Richard takes his 17 yr. old estranged son to DisneyLand. You can see that Ben is fighting something, trying to recapture some sense of his lost childhood. He’s fighting with his father, yelling at him while riding the teacups or waiting for Space Mountain and Richard is taking it, feeling like he deserves it. Ben’s trying to work out all these emotions, worried about an expiration date or something---afraid to see this day end. And there’s this scene: Anhil is a font of sound advice and sharp commentaries on American culture, despite his comic malapropisms. Discuss the impact he has on those around him. Does the fact that he is an immigrant outsider afford him a clearer vision of the people and culture around him?

onun dışından panik atak sonrası yüzleşmesi gereken şeyler olduğunu fark ediyor ve kardeşine gidiyor, oğlunu evine davet ediyor, sessizlik yemini edilen bir kampa gidiyor filan.

No, it won't. A.M. Homes's This Book Will Save Your Life can't even generate enough energy to save itself. ben’in babasız çektiği acılar çok dokunaklı açıkçası ama ben artık bu romanları ohoo bizde neler var duygusuyla okuyorum. maalesef 3. dünya gerçekliği :( Often I have a title before I start to work—but this time, I wasn’t sure. I finished the novel and gave it to my agent who said, I love it, what’s it called. And I blurted out, “This Book Will Save Your Life,” which I hope holds true. It saved Richard Novak’s life—he is far happier and more fulfilled at the end.

An unnerving glimpse through the windows of other people’s lives. A.M. Homes is a provocative and eloquent writer, and her vision of the way we live now is anything but safe.”—Meg WolitzerA.M. Homes skillfully circles and tugs at the question of what it means to live in flawed, fragile, hungry human bodies . . . DAYS OF AWE is sliced through with Homes’s dark humor . . . one wants to read passages of a Homes story aloud because they are so fine . . . DAYS OF AWE feels like the part of the day when the sun is about to go down and the light is brighter while the shadows are darker. Everything has a sharp edge, is strikingly beautiful and suddenly also a little menacing.” —Ramona Ausubel, The New York Times Book Review With dark humor and sharp dialogue, Homes plumbs the depths of everyday American anxieties through stories about unexpected situations.” — Time In the title story, a Holocaust survivor taps into a theme of the collection when he describes the way people hold the history of previous generations inside them. ‘We carry it with us, not just in our grandmother’s silver,’ he says, ‘but in our bodies, the cells of our hearts.’”— Wall Street Journal neyse sonuçta kahramanın sonsuz yolculuğu misali richard’la oğlu ben’in yolculuklarına, kavgalarına, yüzleşmelerine şahit oluyoruz. baştaki saçmalıklar devam ediyor ve bu kez de yangınla final yapıyoruz.

Richard’s son, Ben, has been deeply affected by his father’s absence in his life. Discuss the ways in which their relationship evolves during Ben’s time in Malibu. As a memoirist, A.M. Homes takes a characteristically fierce and fearless approach. And she has a whopper of a personal story to tell.”– Chicago TribuneI 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.”—Jeanette Winterson, New York Times bestselling author of Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?DAYS OF AWE With dark humor and sharp dialogue, Homes plumbs the depths of everyday American anxieties through stories about unexpected situations.”— Time Homes, whose masterful handling of suburban dystopia merits her own adjective, may have just written her midcareer magnum opus with this portrait of a flawed Nixonian bent on some sort of emotional amnesty.”—Christopher Bollen, Interview