A collection of stories by a contributing editor to Vanity Fair and other prominent publications considers such topics as human desires, memories, the need for connection, adolescent sexuality, and finding oneself. Reaer's Guide available. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.[...]
From the author of the best-selling This Book Will Save Your Life, a transfixing psychological thriller about the point at which the lines between friendship and family, between love and compulsion, start to blur.[...]
The acclaimed writer A. M. Homes was given up for adoption before she was born. Her biological mother was a twenty-two-year-old single woman who was having an affair with a much older married man with a family of his own. "The Mistress's Daughter" is the ruthlessly honest account of what happened wh[...]
"The Lottery," one of the most terrifying stories written in this century, created a sensation when it was first published in "The""New Yorker." "Power and haunting," and "nights of unrest" were typical reader responses. This collection, the only one to appear during Shirley Jackson's lifetime, unit[...]
Winner of the 2013 Women's Prize for Fiction--A darkly comic novel of twenty-first-century domestic life and the possibility of personal transformation
Harold Silver has spent a lifetime watching his younger brother, George, a taller, smarter, and more successful high-flying TV executive, acqui[...]
From the 2013 Orange Prize-winning author of "May We Be Forgiven.".. Only a work of such searing, meticulously controlled brilliance could provoke such a wide range of visceral responses. Here is the incredible story of an imprisoned pedophile who is drawn into an erotically charged correspondence w[...]
As A.M. Homes's incendiary novel unfolds, the Kodacolor hues of the good life become nearly hallucinogenic. Laying bare th foundations of a marriage, flash frozen in the anxious entropy of a suburban subdivision, Paul and Elaine spin the quit terors of family life into a fantastical frenzy that car[...]
Richard Novak is a modern day everyman, a middle-aged divorcee trading stocks out of his home. He has done such a good job getting his life under control that he needs no one, except his trainer, nutritionist and housekeeper. His life has slowed almost to a standstill, until two incidents conspire t[...]
On the day that Homes was born in 1961, she was given up for adoption. Thirty years later, out of the blue, Homes was contacted by a lawyer on behalf of her birth mother, and they began to correspond; her biological father contacted her soon after. These two individuals and their effect on the adult[...]
'This novel starts at maximum force -- and then it really gets going. I can't remember when I last read a novel of such narrative intensity; an unflinching account of a catastrophic, violent, black-comic, transformative year in the history of one broken American family. Flat-out amazing.' Salman Rus[...]
The dark and dazzling new novel from the author of the major bestseller This Book Will Save Your Life[...]
A macabre and thrilling look at the vagaries of desire, and the terrible consequences of acting upon it.[...]
A modern day Revolutionary Road; a suburban New York couple tear apart the life they've built together[...]
Strange, smart and sexy short stories from one of America's most brilliant contemporary writers.
Short listed for the RichardJudy Book Club 2007. Presents a story set in Los Angeles about one man's effort to bring himself back to life. This work reveals what can happen if you are willing to open up to the world around you.[...]