Paperback. Music for Torching is both more laconic and nervier, its constant cinematic stream of satire repartee and howling pain expressed in short, simple sentences. Like “You are your own beginning. A.M. Homes Music for Torching is a dark, twisted book, a satirical disection of a seemingly normal suburban couple and their lives. Homes composed her previous novel,The End of Alice, a shattering homage to and perversion of Nabokov's Loita, in breathless, brutal poetic prose.
A.M. Homes is the author of the novels The End of Alice, In a Country of Mothers, and Jack, as well as the short-story collection The Safety of Objects and the artist's book Appendix A. This could be the motto of the suburbanites in A.M. Homes's fourth... Free shipping over $10. I … A M Holmes wrote May We be Forgiven which is one of my favourite books. "About time to sleep," I said to AB as I pulled Music for Torching by A. M. Homes from the shelves to read. At one point in A.M. Homes's new novel, Music for Torching, suburban women take an ax to a dining-room table damaged in a house fire. Through neither intention nor fault of the author, the story being told here has become more relevant to American readers with each passing year. Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading. "Anything else need the old chop-chop?" I also liked This Book Will Save Your Life.
It was just past midnight. A.M. HOMES is the author of the novels May We Be Forgiven, This Book Will Save Your Life, Music for Torching, The End of Alice, In a Country of Mothers and Jack, and 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. Music For Torching. A.M. Homes’ novel Music for Torching is proof that some books must wait for their time. No one is faithful in their neighborhood and all hide deep, dark secrets, yet all carry on as if they just walked out of a Norman Rockwell painting. Obsessed with 'making things good again', they spin the quiet terrors of family life into a fantastical frenzy that careers well and truly out of control. A.M. Homes Music for Torching is a dark, twisted book, a satirical disection of a seemingly normal suburban couple and their lives. By A. M. Home s. January 30, 1995.
Music for Torching is hilarious and terrifying. Music for Torching is centred around an upper-class couple… Possible ex library copy, that’ll have the markings and stickers associated from the library.
A.M. Homes Music for Torching is a dark, twisted book, a satirical disection of a seemingly normal suburban couple and their lives. Music for Torching by A M Homes. Buy a cheap copy of Music for Torching book by A.M. Homes. Description of the book "Music For Torching": Paul and Elaine have two boys and a beautiful home, yet they find themselves thoroughly, inexplicably stuck. 7 likes. Drag them down to your level! Music for Torching - Kindle edition by Homes, A. M.. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Harper Perennial.
Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Music for Torching. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. As Quentin Crisp used to say, Don't keep up with the Joneses! It is an increasingly bizarre and fantastic, nightmarish story. Buy a cheap copy of Music for Torching book by A.M. Homes. "I could do this forever," one says. GOOD. No one is faithful in their neighborhood and all hide deep, dark secrets, yet all carry on as if they just walked out of a Norman Rockwell painting. And for much of Music for Torching, I enjoyed the trade-mark bone-dry, black and bleak humour.
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Her fiction has been translated into eight languages, and she is the recipient of numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and a National endowment for the Arts Fellowship.
It was around five in the morning when I turned the last page on the suburban nightmare that Homes created.