A. M. Homes

The career of author A.M. Homes has gone from strength to strength as she has come to dominate the contemporary American fiction landscape. Two of her early works, Jack and The Safety of Objects were converted to successful films, and she now develops television shows for HBO and CBS.

Her latest novel, May We Be Forgiven, began life as a short story commissioned by Zadie Smith. Salman Rushdie calls it ‘flat-out amazing’. Jeanette Winterson is a fan.

Compared to the work of John Cheever in the New York Times, the book won the 2013 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction (formerly the Orange Prize for Fiction). It’s a biting satire of suburban life in the US, where Nixon expert Harry Silver finds himself abruptly thrust into his older brother’s place and must learn to cope with a twisted rural community weirder than anything he could have encountered in the city.

With six novels, two short-story collections and two non-fiction books behind her, including the memoir The Mistress’s Daughter, about the first meeting with her birth mother, plus several TV shows in development, A.M. Homes is a prolific, cutting-edge author not to be missed.

A.M. Homes

A.M. Homes is the author of the novels, This Book Will Save Your Life, Music for Torching, The End of Alice, In a Country of Mothers and Jack, two collections of short stories, Things You Should Know and The Safety of Objects and the highly acclaimed memoir, The Mistress’s Daughter, as well as the travel memoir, Los Angeles: People, Places and the Castle on the Hill.

Toni Jordan

Toni Jordan is the acclaimed author of Addition, Fall Girl and Nine Days. She lives in Melbourne, where she teaches creative writing at RMIT University. (rodneyvc)… (mere)

Join us for a reading group discussion of May We Be Forgiven by AM Homes!

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Harold has spent a lifetime watching his younger brother acquire success. But Harold knows his brother has a murderous temper, and when he loses control the result is an act of violence so shocking that both brothers are hurled into entirely new lives.

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A.M. Homes
The Wheeler Centre, 6:15PM - 7:15PM, Thursday 28 February 2013
A.M. Homes’ latest novel, May We Be Forgiven, began life as a short story commissioned by Zadie Smith. Salman Rushdie calls it ‘flat-out amazing’. Jeanette Winterson is a fan.

Homes has long had a devoted US following for her surreal suburban satires. With this surprise bestseller about a man who inherits his brother’s family in the strangest of ways (involving adultery, murder and prison), she’s become a worldwide literary star.

Often compared to Cheever and Updike, she pioneers her own distinctive brand of satire, veering between irony and sincerity, doom and redemption. Along the way, she coolly observes the absurdities of contemporary life.

In conversation with Jenny Niven.

Presenters

A.M. Homes

A.M. Homes is the author of the novels, This Book Will Save Your Life, Music for Torching, The End of Alice, In a Country of Mothers and Jack, two collections of short stories, Things You Should Know and The Safety of Objects and the highly acclaimed memoir, The Mistress’s Daughter, as well as the travel memoir, Los Angeles: People, Places and the Castle on the Hill.

Jenny Niven

Jenny Niven is the Wheeler Centre’s Associate Director. (rodneyvc)… (mere)

George Silver, big-shot TV executive with a beautiful wife and glowing kids, seems to have it all. But as his envious brother Harold knows, George also has a nasty temper. When it explodes more violently than usual, the impact sends both brothers reeling. Homes, the author of tragicomic novels of suburban woe including This Book Will Save Your Life and Music for Torching, is a great storyteller with an audacious imagination.

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