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This Book Will Save Your Life

This Book Will Save Your Life Paperback - 2007

by A. M. Homes

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Richard Novak is functionally dead and doesn't even notice until two incidents conspire to hurl him back into the world, in this novel about compassion, transformation, and what can happen if one is open to the world.

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Penguin Publishing Group, 2007. Paperback. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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  • Title This Book Will Save Your Life
  • Author A. M. Homes
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 384
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Publishing Group, U.S.A.
  • Date 2007
  • Features Price on Product - Canadian
  • Bookseller's Inventory # G0143038745I4N00
  • ISBN 9780143038740 / 0143038745
  • Weight 0.59 lbs (0.27 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.28 x 5.08 x 0.67 in (21.03 x 12.90 x 1.70 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Sex & Gender: Masculine
    • Topical: Family
  • Library of Congress subjects Psychological fiction, Humorous fiction
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005054697
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Summary

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 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. This Book Will Save Your Life is a vivid, uplifting, and revealing story about compassion, transformation, and what can happen if you are willing to lose yourself and open up to the world around you.

Media reviews

Homes’ dark delivery . . . is in full regalia here. . . . Laugh-outloud funny. (The Boston Globe)

An absolute masterpiece . . . Homes writes ecstatically, and like no one else. (The Philadelphia Inquirer)

I think this brave story of a lost man’s reconnection with the world could become a generational touchstone, like Catch-22, The Monkey Wrench Gang, or The Catcher in the Rye. . . . And hey, maybe it will save somebody’s life. (Stephen King)

Hilarious . . . Homes writes in the tradition of Kurt Vonnegut and has the talent to pull it off. (San Francisco Chronicle)

About the author

A.M. Homes was born in Washington D.C. graduated from Sarah Lawrence College and the University of Iowa, lives in New York City and teaches at Princeton University. Her work appears in ArtForum, Granta, The Guardian, McSweeney's, Modern Painters, The New Yorker, The New York Times, Electric Literature, Playboy, and Zoetrope. She works in television, most recently as as Co-Executive Producer of Falling Water and Stephen King's Mr. Mercedes, and is a contributing editor to Vanity Fair. She is the recipient of awards including the Guggenheim, NEA, and NYFA fellowships. Her most recent novel, May We Be Forgiven, won the Women's Prize for Fiction, 2013, and has been optioned for film by Unanimous Entertainment.