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Harold Silver, mite professore di storia con un'ossessione per Richard Nixon, ha speso una vita intera a invidiare suo fratello minore George - più alto, più affascinante, più di successo -, la sua bellissima moglie, i suoi figli e la sua casa sontuosa. Ma la vita apparentemente perfetta di uno e quella noiosa dell'altro saranno stravolte per sempre da una serie di eventi inaspettati, che culmineranno in un episodio di efferata violenza famigliare. A.M. Homes continua a sezionare la "placida" America borghese e le sue storie di ordinaria follia. Un'America sempre più composta da stralunati internauti, inabili ai rapporti umani. La consueta crudezza pulp dell'autrice è declinata qui con uno sguardo insieme ironico e compassionevole, per lei inedito, che mette al centro la speranza del perdono e le trasformazioni attraverso cui cerchiamo di ritrovare noi stessi.
- ISBN: 8807894181
- Casa Editrice: Feltrinelli
- Pagine: 496
- Data di uscita: 10-09-2020
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- You know you were making all these little beeping chortly noises when you were reading this one but then you went quiet and just sort of grunted and ground your teeth. - I do not do that! - Well, what went wrong? - Hmmm (grinds teeth, grunts). - Well did you like it? - That’s too hard to answer. - Wel Leggi tutto
A very dark comedy of family life. I laughed out loud reading it. It's about a hapless man whose brother is a bully and has it all in life. The brother hits a car and kills 2 people and ends up in the hospital. Then the bully brother goes a bit insane. The hapless man helps the brothers wife, who he Leggi tutto
much to enjoy in this flawed but often brilliant sprawl of a novel. its five hundred pages breezed by. parts were great. but two words: magical negro. and maybe this is a tangential point (and one that speaks about the novel's structural fissures more than any latent racism), but an issue that was i Leggi tutto
If there was ever a novel in serious need of plot speed-bumps such as weather descriptions, it’s this one. You would think that in a 500 page novel the author would take her time and let things unravel slowly. No, not Homes. It was a crazy ride in a convertible with Homes behind the wheel and me sit Leggi tutto
This book is sort of like this . In case the video doesn't make it clear, it's a roller-coaster. Normally on a roller-coaster there is that sort of long build up while you creak towards the top to be dropped into the rollicking fun. In this one, right after you start what you expect to be a slow asce Leggi tutto
I can't quite put my finger on why I enjoyed this book so much -- and was sad when it ended, and I couldn't spend more time with bumbling Harold and his hodge podge of a family of brave children, horny MILFs and demented seniors. The novel is basically a story of redemption -- how a cold, solipsisti Leggi tutto
A.M. Homes’ novel “May We Be Forgiven” starts exactly the way you want a novel by A.M. Homes to start: Harry Silver is helping his sister-in-law Jane clean up after Thanksgiving dinner at his blow hard, TV exec brother George’s house. During one haul to the kitchen, Jane cozies up to Harry, kisses h Leggi tutto
This novel becomes more and more unwieldy as the story unfolds. The absurdities Homes creates make you wonder, where is this going? How will this all come together? And somehow, Homes pulls it off. This is my first exposure to her fiction and I'm a fan. There is so much wit and intelligence in this
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