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    Audiobook8 hours

    Days of Awe

    Written by A.M. Homes

    Narrated by Cassandra Campbell, Devon Sorvari, Katharine Mangold and

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    "With dark humor and sharp dialogue, Homes plumbs the depths of everyday American anxieties." --Time
    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.

    Brother on Sunday, Days of Awe, All Is Good Except for the Rain, The National Cage Bird Show, Your Mother Was a Fish, The Last Good Time, Be Mine, A Prize for Every Player, Omega Point and She Got Away: Recording Copyright 2018 Penguin Random House LLC.

    Hello Everybody and Whose Story Is It and Why Is It Always On Her Mind: Recording Copyright 2013 W.F. Howes Ltd
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherW. F. Howes Ltd
    Release dateOct 25, 2018
    ISBN9781528847131
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    Days of Awe
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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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