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"Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast."
- Logan Pearsall Smith
(1865 - 1946)
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ZIN Product Number: 10189616
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Paperback, 1st ed., 176 pages
Edition: 1ST ROB WE
Publisher: Morrow,William & Co
ISBN: 0688170838
Release Date: Jan 4, 1999
Average Reader Review:  (Based on 2 reviews.)
| |  | | | In Brief
This is a collection of short stories by the author of Jack (BRD 1990).
| | | | From The Publisher
Published to overwhelming critical acclaim, this remarkable collection of short stories established A.M. Homes as one of the most provacative and daring writers of her generation. Here you'll find the cult classic. "A Real Doll," the tale of a teenage boy's erotic obsession with his sister's Barbie doll; "Adults Alone," which first introduced Paul and Elaine, the crack-smoking yuppie couple whose marriage careens out of control in Home's novel Music for Torching; and "Looking for Johnny," in which a kidnapped boy, having failed his abductors expectations, is returned home.
Brilliantly concieved, sharply etched, and exceptionally satisfying, these stories explore the American dream in ways you're not likely soon to forget. Working in Kodacolor hues, Homes offers an uncanny picture of a surreal suburbia — outrageous and utterly believable.
Author Biography: 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. 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. Her fiction and nonfiction appear in magazines such as The New Yorker and Artforum, among others, and she is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair, Mirabella, Bomb, Blind Spot, and Story. She teaches in the writing programs at Columbia University and The New School and lives in New York City.
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 | | | | | Number of Reviews: 2 Average Rating:
Brilliant, observant and thought provoking
-- A reviewer, in Schaumburg, Illinois, August 6, 2001
Brilliant, observant and thought provoking
-- A reviewer, in Schaumburg, Illinois, August 6, 2001
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