This Book Will Save Your Life

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This Book Will Save Your Life

This Book Will Save Your Life

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It might present itself in my clenched jaw or that weird stabbing that runs right through my chest and out my back (I’ve been meaning to get that checked out, btw. In her third provocative story collection, she displays her command of the viciously realistic and the pointedly surreal, the comic and the tragic.

I could see why certain readers would find this particular book tiresome, but I really enjoyed it - perhaps because, suffering from MDD myself, my heart goes out to poor old Richard. A friend of mine once found an old man bewildered and freezing in Sefton Park, spent the evening trying to find his house for him and was later arrested for attempted abduction and mugging. Divorced and lacking any genuine closeness with his son, brother and parents he is facing a huge hole in his life and on the hillside property where he resides. What does it mean to be someone like Richard, who appears to have it all, and yet his life feels so empty? Homes is the author of the novels, The Unfolding, May We Be Forgiven, which won the 2013 Women's Prize for Fiction, This Book Will Save Your Life, Music For Torching, The End of Alice, In a Country of Mothers, and Jack, as well as the short-story collections, Things You Should Know and The Safety of Objects, the travel memoir, Los Angeles: People, Places and The Castle on the Hill, and the artist's book Appendix A: An Elaboration on the Novel the End of Alice.It all starts with a minor health scare for Richard, the affluent but lonely and set in his ways prematurely retired protagonist, that sets him on a new personal trajectory that sees his usually very routine existence turned on its head and given a good shake. When I picked up This Book Will Save Your Life I wondered whether the writing style would be the same, whether the voice of Richard (the protagonist) would be similar and I was surprised (and relieved) to find it was completely different.

We need to get back to what are in some ways more primitive, more successful concepts of family, which include the extended family and a commitment to one’s role and place in their surrounding community.It made me seriously reflect about decisions I have made in my life and the impact my actions had on others, such as my kids. From his neighbor’s intravenous vitamin infusions to the assortment of pies proffered as goodwill tokens, food and eating take on a peculiar glow in the novel. He finds a weeping housewife in the produce section of the supermarket, helps save a horse that has fallen into the sinkhole, daringly rescues a woman from the trunk of her kidnapper's car, and, after the sinkhole claims his house and he has to relocate to a Malibu rental, he befriends a reluctant counterculture icon. I recommend it to anyone who's questioning their existence, the meaning of it all, or who just wants to vicariously live the experience of coming to terms with it all. I’ve always been interested in ideas about our culture, the morality underneath the way we live: Do we think we are good people, doing the “right” thing?

He spoke properly and it was old-timey, and yet he was a paedophile who was imprisoned for a heinous crime.richard’ın senaristin babası sandığı adam meğer kendini iyi hisset projesi gibi huzurevinde seçip baktığın biriymiş. For Holden is now being bounced from fancy prep, and, after a vicious evening with hall- and roommates, heads for New York to try to keep his latest failure from his parents. Homes is the author of Things You Should Know, Music for Torching, The End of Alice, In a Country of Mothers, The Safety of Objects, and Jack, and Los Angeles: People, Places and the Castle on the Hill.

A master of honed dialogue—play-like in their momentum, many of these tales have an Edward Albee aura—Homes is also potently visual and acknowledges artists who inspire her . DAYS OF AWE feels like the part of the day when the sun is about to go down and the light is brighter while the shadows are darker.

For that reason alone I'm glad I read this book, and it's the reason it has two stars rather than one.



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