May We Be Forgiven by A. M. Homes
A darkly comic novel of twenty-first-century domestic life and the possibility of personal transformation.
Harold Silver has spent a lifetime watching his younger brother, George, a taller, smarter, and more successful high-flying TV executive, acquire a covetable wife, two kids, and a beautiful home in the suburbs of New York City. But Harry, a historian and Nixon scholar, also knows George has a murderous temper, and when George loses control the result is an act of violence so shocking that both brothers are hurled into entirely new lives in which they both must seek absolution.
Harry finds himself suddenly playing parent to his brother's two adolescent children, tumbling down the rabbit hole of Internet sex, dealing with aging parents who move through time like travelers on a fantastic voyage. As Harry builds a twenty-first-century family created by choice rather than biology, we become all the more aware of the ways in which our history, both personal and political, can become our destiny and either compel us to repeat our errors or be the catalyst for change.
May We Be Forgiven is an unnerving, funny tale of unexpected intimacies and of how one deeply fractured family might begin to put itself back together.
About the Author
A. M. Homes is the author of the novels, This Book Will Save Your Life, Music for Torching, The End of Alice, In a Country of Mothers and Jack, 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.
She is a contributing editor to Vanity Fair and writes frequently on arts and culture for numerous magazines and newspapers. She is currently writing for a new major US TV Series. She lives in New York City.
Format: Paperback | 368 pages
Dimensions (cm): 23.4 x 15.5 x 3.2 | 566g
Publication Date: 01 Nov 2012
Publisher: Granta Publications
Publication City/Country: London, United Kingdom
Language: English
Edition Number: 1
ISBN10: 1847083226
ISBN13: 9781847083227
Condition: Good
A book that has been read but is in good condition. Some minor, but obvious, damage to the cover including scuff marks and creasing along the edges, and minor general wear, but no holes or tears. The majority of pages are undamaged with minor creasing but no tearing. No pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text, no writing in margins. No missing pages.