A. M. Homes – författare

“Eleven sharply original portraits of domestic life: the distance between family members, the minor wars between friends and lovers” (Publishers Weekly).In this stunningly original collection, A. M. Homes writes with terrifying compassion about the things that matter most. Homes’s distinctive narrative illuminates our dreams and desires, our memories and losses, and demonstrates how extraordinary the ordinary can be. With uncanny emotional accuracy, wit, and empathy, Homes takes us places we recognize but would rather not go alone.A New York Times Notable Book

“[A] much-anticipated, wickedly funny and sharply observed political satire…This novel of politics and family brings readers to the fault line of American politics.” —The New York Times Book Review “Beyond being good or bad, the characters in this impressive book are, above all things, unpredictable.”—Wall Street Journal One family will remake America. Even if they fall apart trying. A.M. Homes delivers us back to ourselves in this stunning alternative history that is both terrifyingly prescient, deeply tender and devastatingly funny.The Big Guy loves his family, money and country. Undone by the results of the 2008 presidential election, he taps a group of like-minded men to reclaim their version of the American Dream. As they build a scheme to disturb and disrupt, the Big Guy also faces turbulence within his family. His wife, Charlotte, grieves a life not lived, while his 18-year-old daughter, Meghan, begins to realize that her favorite subject—history—is not exactly what her father taught her.In a story that is as much about the dynamics within a family as it is about the desire for those in power to remain in power, Homes presciently unpacks a dangerous rift in American identity, prompting a reconsideration of the definition of truth, freedom and democracy—and exploring the explosive consequences of what happens when the same words mean such different things to people living together under one roof.From the writer who is always “razor sharp and furiously good” (Zadie Smith), a darkly comic political parable braided with a Bildungsroman that takes us inside the heart of a divided country.

Què passa quan tens una família modèlica, ets un ciutadà amb fil directe a la Casa Blanca, aportes un dineral al Partit Republicà, et sents al capdamunt del món, però Barack Obama guanya les eleccions presidencials? El teu orgull d''home blanc, conservador i patriota se sent ferit? T''ajuntes amb altres com tu i comences a fer conxorxes contra el futur president, amb tota mena de tripijocs escassament legals?El Paio Gros se sent legitimat per considerar-se entre els bons, entre els escollits, com si descendís directament dels pares fundadors dels Estats Units, i creu que tot i tothom gira al seu voltant. Però anirà descobrint que no és fàcil aferrar-se al poder, que la seva dona i la seva filla tenen idees pròpies sobre la vida, que el món està canviant, que per a ell el somni americà potser serà només un somni, o un malson…Amb diàlegs irònics i frenètics, A. M. Homes ens proposa una paràbola política brillant, terriblement profètica dels dies tèrbols que vivim avui dia.