Jack - Hardcover

A.M. Homes

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0027448312 ISBN 13: 9780027448313

Publisher: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1989

Synopsis

A teenager learns to cope with the difficulties and sorrows of life over the course of a single year as his parents divorce, he discovers that his father is gay, and his best friend's "perfect" family is torn apart by domestic violence

About this title

From the Back Cover:

"A moving novel, and a very refreshing one. Jack is such an engaging, attractive human being, it's a pleasure to believe in him." -- David Foster Wallace"The engaging, doggedly funny [Jack] is likable from the first paragraph, a good kid caught in circumstances too much for him. And in the particulars of those circumstances, A. M. Homes touches upon something unique. Ms. Homes handles the big subjects subtly, deftly and with an appealing lack of melodrama."

-- The New York Times Book Review

"A. M. Homes has created a most endearing teenager, and an intensely real world around him .... A fine book."

-- Hilma Wolitzer

From the Inside Flap:

In Jack, A. M. Homes gives us a teenager who wants nothing more than to be normal--even if being normal means having divorced parents and a rather strange best friend. But when Jack's father takes him out in a rowboat on Lake Watchmayoyo and tells his son he's gay, nothing will ever be normal again. Out of Jack's struggle to redefine what "family" means, A. M. Homes crafts a novel of enormous humor, charm, and resonance, the most convincing, funny, and insightful novel about adolescence since "The Catcher in the Rye.

About this edition

• Publisher: Macmillan Publishing Company
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0027448312
• ISBN 13: 9780027448313
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 220