This Book Will Save Your Life
Homes, A. M.
ISBN 10: 1862079331 ISBN 13: 9781862079335
Published by Granta Books, 2007
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This Book Will Save Your Life is an uplifting story about one man's efforts to bring himself back to life. Richard is a modern-day everyman, a middle-aged divorcee trading stocks out of his home in Los Angeles who needs no one. His life has slowed almost to a standstill until two incidents conspire to hurl him back into the world. One day he wakes up with a knotty cramp in his back, which rapidly develops into an all-consuming pain. At the same time a wide sinkhole appears outside his living-room window, threatening the foundations of his house. A vivid novel about compassion and transformation, This Book Will Save Your Life reveals what can happen if you are willing to open yourself up to the world around you. 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 keen ability to explore how extraordinary the ordinary can be is at the heart of this touching and funny novel, which was shortlisted for the Richard & Judy Book Club in 2007.
About the Author: A. M. Homes is the award-winning author of Music for Torching, The End of Alice, and The Safety of Objects, among others. She is also a writer and executive producer for the hit cable TV show The L Word.
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Title: This Book Will Save Your Life
Publisher: Granta Books
Publication Date: 2007
Binding: paperback
Condition: Fair