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    Days of Awe: Stories

    Written by A.M. Homes

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    A razor-sharp story collection from a writer who is always "furiously good" (Zadie Smith, bestselling author of Swing Time).

    With her signature humor and compassion, A.M. Homes exposes the heart of an uneasy America in her new collection—exploring our attachments to each other through characters who aren't quite who they hoped to become, though there is no one else they can be.

    In "A Prize for Every Player," a man is nominated to run for president by the customers of a big box store, while he and his family do their weekly shopping. At a conference on genocide(s) in the title story, old friends rediscover themselves and one another—finding spiritual and physical comfort in ancient traditions. And in "Hello Everybody" and "She Got Away," Homes revisits a Los Angeles family obsessed with the surfaces and frightened of what lives below.

    In the nearly three decades since her seminal debut collection The Safety of Objects, Homes has been celebrated by readers and critics alike as one of our boldest and most original writers, acclaimed for her psychological accuracy and "satire so close to the truth it's terrifying" (Ali Smith). Her first book since the Women's Prize-winning May We Be Forgiven, Days of Awe is a major new addition to her body of visionary, fearless, outrageously funny work.

    Audiobook Table of Contents:
    Brother On Sunday, read by Mark Bramhall
    Whose Story Is It and Why Is It Always On Her Mind?, read by Kimberly Farr
    Days of Awe, read by Rebecca Lowman
    Hello Everybody, read by Devon Sorvari
    All Is Good Except for the Rain, read by Cassandra Campbell
    The National Caged Bird Show, read by Mark Bramhall, Cassandra Campbell, Will Damron, Kimberly Farr, Rebecca Lowman, Fred Sanders, and Devon Sorvari
    Your Mother Was a Fish, read by Cassandra Campbell
    The Last Good Time, read by Will Damron
    Be Mine, read by Rebecca Lowman
    A Prize for Every Player, read by Will Damron
    Omega Point, read by Kimberly Farr
    She Got Away, read by Devon Sorvari

    Cover Photograph: "White Sands National Monument" © The Estate of Garry Winogrand, courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateJun 5, 2018
    ISBN9780525630999
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    Days of Awe: Stories
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    A.M. Homes

    A.M. Homes vive en Nueva York y es profesora en la Universidad de Columbia. Ha sido denominada «reina de las bad-girl heroines» (Mademoiselle) y «la mejor retratista de la depravación contemporánea» (The New York Times Book Review). En Anagrama se han publicado El fin de Alice: «Una indagación en lo más oscuro de los deseos, una obra emparentada con la Lolita de Nabokov, pero más brutal y provocadora» (Mauricio Bach, El Mundo); «Un cruce entre Lolita y El silencio de los corderos» (Karma); Música para corazones incendiados: «Una crónica excéntrica y delirante del tejido conyugal y del fracaso de un modelo social» (Javier Aparicio Maydeu, El Periódico); Cosas que debes saber: «Un sabroso catálogo de los horrores cotidianos que anidan en los suburbios residenciales de Estados Unidos» (Juan Manuel de Prada, ABC); «Pensad en A. M. Homes como en la hija imposible de John Cheever y Dorothy Parker, unida para siempre a su hermano siamés Todd Solondz» (Rodrigo Fresán); Este libro te salvará la vida: «Destinada a convertirse en una comedia memorable sobre un pedazo de vida en la ciudad de Los Ángeles» (Iosu de la Torre, El Periódico); «Una novela frenética, nerviosa, que tiene tanto de fábula moral como de crítica certera de la sociedad de consumo» (Diego Gándara, La Razón); La hija de la amante: «Relato intenso, duro, y que crea en el lector la fascinante necesidad de continuar leyendo» (Sergi Pàmies); «Libro despiadado, sombrío y resplandeciente a la vez» (María José Obiol, El País); Ojalá nos perdonen: «Excelente el reflejo social que nos ofrece Homes» (José Antonio Gurpegui, El Mundo); Días temibles: «la maestría de Homes para el relato y su talento para la observación y la parodia y el retrato deformante pero tan fi el de seres extremos a la vez que normales» (Rodrigo Fresán, ABC); En un país para madres: «Inquietante... Captura un mundo fuera de control... Una novela psicológica fascinante» (San Francisco Chronicle) y La revelación: «Una sátira feroz… Homes captura a las élites estadounidenses con exquisita precisión… Escenas que hacen llorar de risa… Irresistible» (Ron Charles, The Washington Post).

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    • 4/5
      This is an interesting collection, which isn't afraid to push boundaries and experiment with form: Homes clearly isn't someone who would ever accept being tied down to the "Creative Writing" idea of what a short story should be. As you would expect, that sort of approach is something that can work either brilliantly or disastrously, but it's rarely sitting anywhere near the comfortable middle ground. There are a couple of what I thought were really excellent, unforgettable stories in this collection, but there are also quite a few that I really didn't like. And I'm pretty sure that many other readers will feel the same thing, but come up with an entirely different list of hits and misses...What really grabbed me? The title story, first of all, in which a Transgressive Novelist and a War Correspondent have a brief fling during an academic conference on "Genocide(S)", and Homes cleverly manages to get them to debate the thorny question of imaginative fiction versus reportage from first-hand experience whilst going to bed with each other, eating apples and ice-cream, and rediscovering their Jewishness. A real tour-de-force, where you know the writer must be playing you in cunning ways from beginning to end, but you're never really aware of it. And "The National Cage Bird Show", where a traumatised soldier serving in Afghanistan and an overprivileged teenage girl in New York stray into the discussion on a chat forum dedicated to parakeets, where neither of them has any obvious business to be, and find themselves unexpectedly bonding - or at least imagine themselves to be, until the real world catches up with both of them. And "A Prize for Every Player", where a family who have turned their weekly shopping expedition into a complicated game come out with a couple of unexpected rewards. And a couple of very clever short-short stories, where a complicated life-event is unpacked in the space of a single dialogue pared down to the absolute minimum.What didn't work so well for me were the several stories where Homes plays with the same satirical view of the artificial life of the Los Angeles wealthy that she developed in This book.... I just couldn't see how she could find these people interesting or important enough to bother with the considerable effort of making fun of them, and I'm not all that sure that she could, either.Like all worthwhile short story collections, a curate's egg, but (messing up the metaphor) one that's worth it for the good bits.
    • 5/5
      Homes is a longtime favorite writer. She doesn't disappoint here. The variety of storylines and characters makes each story a very individual story in itself. Many short story collections seem to be built on a limited number of plots, and the characters feel quite similar, but those collections don't give enough to feel as satisfying this fine work.
    • 4/5
      The twelve stories herein run the gamut from the peculiar to the extreme, but each shows the hand of a fine craftsperson at work and some exhibit moments of pure comic genius. Unsurprisingly for readers of Homes’ novels or previous short stories, the situations in which these stories take place border on the absurd. A good example is the lyrical but eerie, “Your Mother Was a Fish,” or the possibly apocalyptic, “Omega Point.” There are also recurring locales that Homes uses with skewering insight, such as the overly bright hills above Los Angeles. Equally Homesian is the story based around an experimental technique — such as the transcript of a chat room or when two characters role-play through the voices of other characters (real or imaginary).Undoubtedly the best of these stories is the title story, “Days of Awe,” set at a conference on Genocide(S). All of Homes’ numerous strengths as a writer come to the fore there. And it’s also very funny! But I would be remiss if I didn’t also single out the two linked (though independent) stories that share a common set of characters, “Hello Everybody,” and, “She Got Away.” Priceless.Recommended.